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Fix this textJOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION
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Fix this textVol. 86 No.ll November 7. 2005
Fix this textMembers overwhelmingly endorse salaries offer
Fix this textby John Irving
Fix this textMore than 99 per cent of members attending more
Fix this textthan 200 Sky Channel venues across metropolitan and
Fix this textcountry NSW have endorsed the State Government’s
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Fix this textMembers have accepted the offer which:
Fix this text□ provides first payment from January 1, 2006,
Fix this textthe day after the current award expires
Fix this text□ has been achieved by negotiation
Fix this text□ provides increases for top of the scale teach-
Fix this texters of 4.5 per cent from January 1, 2006, 4.5 per
Fix this textcent from January 1, 2007 and four per cent from
Fix this textJanuary 1, 2008 ($75,352)
Fix this text□ provides increases for teachers still on the incremental
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Fix this textcent from January 1, 2007 and three per cent from
Fix this textJanuary 1, 2008 (step 5 4YT entry point $50,522)
Fix this text□ provides 14 weeks maternity leave on full pay
Fix this text□ provides one week paternity leave on full pay
Fix this text□ provides access to pro-rata long service leave after
Fix this textseven years
Fix this text□ provides four per cent per annum increases for all
Fix this textallowances
Fix this text□ provides four per cent per annum increases for all
Fix this textpromotions positions including the consultancy
Fix this text□ provides for restructuring of assistant principal and
Fix this textPP6 to head teacher salary and deputy principal primary
Fix this textand PPS to deputy principal high school salary from
Fix this textJuly 1, 2008
Fix this text□ establishes joint reviews of principal classifications
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Fix this text□ commits our employer to collective bargaining.
Fix this textNote: All new rates apply from the beginning of the
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Fix this textJohn Irving
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Fix this textTeachers at the Centennial Hotel, Gulgong,
Fix this textvoted unanimously to support the salaries offer.
Fix this textRevolutionary changes to government powers
Fix this textby Barry Johnson
Fix this textThe Howard Government’s multi-mil-
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Fix this textrelations changes. The Work Choices
Fix this textdocument makes it clear that its oppo-
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Fix this textPut simply, John Howard’s argument
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Fix this textWe say that workers will be worse off.
Fix this textPolls show that people do not agree
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Fix this textThe Howard Government’s Work-
Fix this textChoices document and print advertis-
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Fix this textcease a campaign against them. The
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Fix this textOn the other hand, the Howard Gov-
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Fix this textbetter and that in reality workers’ rights
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Fix this textTake home pay will not be protected by
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Fix this textThe right to remain on present condi-
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Fix this textand the award ‘no disadvantage’ test
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Fix this textbe removed for 3.7 million Australian
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Fix this textThe strength of the Australian
Fix this texteconomy has been built on the hard
Fix this textwork of millions of Australians. Since
Fix this textFederation, Australia has had both
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Fix this textThis no longer will be the case.
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Fix this textThe proposals from Howard will over-
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Fix this textwill use the Australian Industrial Rela-
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Fix this textAnd eventually all state industrial rela-
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Fix this textAll of this will be achieved by basing
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Fix this text“The Parliament shall, subject to
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Fix this text“(xx.) Foreign corporations, and trading
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Fix this textIt is this power, the corporations
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Fix this textWhen the Commonwealth of Aus-
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Fix this text1, 1901 the states had agreed to hand
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Fix this textConstitution originally envisaged. This
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Fix this textadvertising has not told Australians is
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Fix this texton its head by the use of the corpora-
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Fix this textThe very role of state governments
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Fix this textIt will be interesting to see how much
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Fix this textBarry Johnson
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Fix this textIR Sky Channel for all
Fix this textworkers November 15
Fix this textMore than 10,000 people are expected to flock into Martin
Fix this textPlace and Belmore Park in Sydney on November 15 to
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Fix this textproposed changes to industrial relations laws.
Fix this textSky Channel meetings will also be held at more than
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Fix this textUnions NSW Deputy Assistant Secretary Chris Chris-
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Fix this textThe meetings will begin at 8.30 am, with the broadcast
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Fix this textThe broadcast is expected to be one hour long.
Fix this textMr Christodoulou said a protest march would follow
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Fix this textHe said at the end of the march there would be
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Fix this textsome regional venues following the Sky Channel broadcast
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Fix this textFederation is distributing postcards titled “I didn’t vote
Fix this textfor an attack on my rights at work” (see page 2). The
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Fix this textThe same postcards will be handed out at some Sky
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