Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation

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Nef 331.8809944 EDU
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Sydney : The Federation, 1919-2021
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Vol. 85 No. 06 (28 Jun 2004)
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Contents

EDUCATION JOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION 1
Teachers’ work was not fairly assessed 1
Full funding achieved in Budget 1
IRC makes its decision 1 , 3
SALARIES How two employers approached two cases 2
Principals postpone speech by Minister 2
Officers 2
Executive 2
Staffing agenda exposed 3
In the budget papers 3
Walkouts 3
How NSW compares to the large states 4
Country Labor hears community wrath 4
PTC final submissions on August 13 4
Salaries bans remain in place 4
Upper House acts 4
Average class sizes information secret 4
NEWS Verbal abuse is a health hazard 5
TAFE students encouraged to enrol and vote 5
Eltis progress on outcomes slows 5
Advertising 5
Award honours mentoring of women 6
in BRIEF 6
Our Fed Reps 6
Advertising 6
Campaign in special education settings 7
Advertising 7
Attacks from both sides of politics 7
New eligibility requirements for head teachers 7
Advertising 7
Devil in the detail for trade agreement 8
What can you do? 8
More than a stay at the beach 9
Advertising 9
Pollies grilled on future of tertiary education 10
Ignore the revised Code of Conduct 10
Switch to juicier health benefits 10
Child detention ruled a breach of human rights 11
Recognising women’s contributions 11
APHEDA honored with medal 11
The President Writes Elevating teachers’ status 12
LETTERS to the Editor Thanks 12
$45 million a day 12
Being militant 12
Simple 12
Public only 13
Plenty to do 13
Brown nose favourites 13
Holding bays 13
What now? 13
Danger of email 13 , 14
Year of the Classroom 14
Blurring the lines 14
Migratory birds 15
Road and rail 15
More to be said 15
More to be said 2 15
Enough said 15
Enough said 2 15
Enough is enough 15
Look no further 16
Oercebtage cut 16
Advertising 13
Carbon Copy Values 14
Inconsistency 14
Independent dismay 14
Advertising 14
ADMINISTRATION Women needed as Anna Stewart Officers for term 4 15
VIEWS Preserve our Print heritage 16
Advertising 16
RETIRED Retired Teachers Association 17 , 18
Advertising 17
Teachers’ days are already more than full 18
Meetings 18
Advertising 18
REVIEWS Book Review Send it to a US citizen 19
Advertising 19 , 20
good vibrations Warm country hospitality 21
Miles Away Everywhere you look 21
Advertising 21
REVIEWS Theatre Dark victory sheds modem light 22
Up, Up and Away Burned at the stake 22
FILM Catharsis by celluloid 23
Cork Screw Avalanche of flavours 23
International Wine and Food Exhibition giveaway 23
Pre-emptive strikes Mr Yen’s World 24
Computer Corner Training as easy as 1,2,3 24
Federation Library 24
Advertising 25 , 26
DT SMITH 26
THOSE WHO CAN’T 26
School of the air students celebrate together 27
Mural is a traffic stopper 27
Advertising 27
Size secret 28
ALP to pass Howard’s funding bill 28

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EDUCATION  

JOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION  

255003 001  

Vo 1. 85 0.6 June 28, 2002  

Teachers’ work was not fairly assessed  

by Maree O’Halloran  

The value of teachers’ work was  

discounted by the Industrial Rela-  

tions Commission in the teachers’  

salaries case because of the Carr  

Government’s unprecedented legal  

and political intervention.  

On June 9, the Industrial Rela-  

tions Commission awarded further  

6.5 per cent in the salaries case  

for total of 12 per cent over two  

years. This amount falls far short  

of Federation’s just salary claim of  

25 per cent. The Commission said  

they reduced the amount awarded as  

result of the Government’s argu-  

ments when it re-opened the case.  

The Commission’s judgment  

included references to “revolution-  

ary” changes in teachers’ work.  

However, the percentage increases  

clearly do not match the rhetoric of  

the judgement.  

On June 10, the Commission  

made decision in the Catholic  

school teachers’ salaries case. While  

“Teachers must now  

ask themselves what  

magnitude of political  

and industrial  

campaigning will  

significantly increase  

salary levels.”  

The President Writes  

page 12  

classroom teachers were awarded  

12 per cent, teachers in promotions  

position were awarded between  

three and 7.5 per cent more.  

The Industrial Relations Com-  

mission’s decisions together put  

at risk quality public education in  

NSW. They are direct result of  

the Premier’s threats to the Indus-  

trial Relations Commission, the  

Government’s re-opening of the  

public education teachers’ case and  

the denigration of public education  

witnesses during the case.  

The public education salaries  

case and the Catholic education  

salaries case ran simultaneously  

in the Commission and the unions  

made the same application. In the  

public education salaries case, the  

work and value of teachers was con-  

tested and witnesses cross-exam-  

ined. The profession and the value  

of teachers’ work was questioned,  

undermined and denigrated time  

and again.  

By contrast, the Catholic employ-  

ers agreed that teachers deserved  

significant increase and the Catholic  

employers made submission for  

teachers in promotions positions to  

be paid more.  

The Catholic employers were  

able to adopt this position because  

the Catholic system is awash with  

Federal and State Government  

money. They argued, and the Com-  

mission accepted, that teachers in  

promotions positions had respon-  

sibility for building the faith in the  

community. Government funding  

of Catholic schools is now specifi-  

cally seen to be directed to build-  

ing religion rather than educating  

children.  

Government funding of private  

schools has resulted in serious and  

significant discrimination in indus-  

trial awards between the public  

system and the Catholic system. The  

work of all teachers in the public  

education system is clearly of no  

lesser value than that in the Catho-  

lic system. Our system caters for  

all students and supports greater  

concentrations of students from  

disadvantaged backgrounds. qual-  

ity public education system builds  

communities and cohesive demo-  

cratic society.  

Federation has called for the  

State Government to rectify the  

damage done to public education  

by:  

□ sending Ministerial Reference  

case to the Industrial Relations  

Commission to increase the 12 per  

cent for all teachers; and  

□ flowing-on the increases awarded  

in the Catholic case to public educa-  

tion teachers in promotions posi-  

tions.  

All teachers in public education  

deserve 25 per cent increase.  

Federation’s claim was for greater  

increases for teachers at the top of  

the scale. In addition, if the dispar-  

ity between public and Catholic  

schools is not rectified now, then  

the next step may well be classroom  

teachers receiving less money than  

their Catholic counterparts. The  

precedent will have been set.  

The Government has refused  

to re-open the teachers’ case to  

increase the 12 per cent for all teach-  

ers. It has offered increases for  

teachers in promotional positions  

contingent upon range of changes  

to all members’ service, and trans-  

fer rights. The changes are straight  

from the discredited Scott/Metherell  

agenda. Federation has rejected the  

Government’s plan and offer. The  

Government’s intention to reintro-  

duce the discredited devolution  

Shattered and angry at the decision of the Industrial Relations  

Commission to award public teachers only further 6.5 per  

cent (in addition to the interim 5.5 per cent) salaries increase,  

on June 10 Wauchope High School teachers went on 24-hour  

strike from 3pm. They also expressed their outrage at the late  

intervention of the Carr Government in the case. See page for  

other schools that walked out.  

agenda has now been exposed and  

will be fought.  

Action by the IRC  

On June 18, the Industrial Rela-  

tions Commission (IRC) re-listed  

the salaries matter because of the  

industrial action threatened by the  

Federation.  

In the public interest, Federa-  

tion is attempting to lodge claims  

for review of the discounting of  

classroom teachers’ salaries and  

flow-on of the increases to promo-  

tions positions. There is no easy  

legal solution to the problem cre-  

ated by the Government’s inter-  

vention in the public education  

teachers’ salaries case.  

The IRC told Federation the  

award had already been ‘made’,  

which makes re-opening the case  

difficult. The Commission advised  

Federation that seeking an award  

variation to flow-on the Catholic  

schools increases was an option.  

On June 28 (today), date will be  

set for the Commission to hear that  

variation.  

Federation has already lobbied  

every State Labor Member of Par-  

liament about increasing the 12 per  

cent awarded to all teachers and  

is continuing to investigate legal  

avenues to pursue an increase for  

everyone before IRC.  

Annual Conference will exam-  

ine the workload of teachers in rela-  

tion to the 12 per cent and continue  

to pursue increases for all teach-  

ers.  

Maree O’Halloran  

is the Presi-  

dent.  

Full funding achieved in Budget  

by Maree O’Halloran  

The State Budget has fully-funded  

the teacher salary increases awarded  

in the Industrial Relations Com-  

mission from Treasury, following  

public education teachers’ cam-  

paign to achieve salary increases  

while protecting the public educa-  

tion budget.  

The Budget highlights what Fed-  

eration has been saying all along  

the NSW Government does have  

the revenue to properly fund public  

education in this state.  

The full funding announcement  

exposes that the Government’s  

‘incapacity to pay’ arguments in the  

teachers’ salaries case were always  

false, manufactured to lower the  

final outcome for teachers. Treas-  

urer Egan reinforced this in his  

Budget speech when he spoke of  

“the bounty provided by strong  

economy”.  

It’s clear the Government should  

never have held the funding of  

public schools and TAFE colleges  

to ransom. Teachers first requested  

an explicit commitment from the  

Premier to fully fund teacher salary  

increases on July 25, 2003.  

The Premier’s actions, in threat-  

ening for year to slash services and  

programs to students, demonstrate  

that this Government continues to  

undervalue public education and  

its teachers.  

Given the extraordinary amount  

of government funding that now  

goes to private schools from  

state and federal governments, the  

full funding of salaries increases  

announcement had to be made. The  

pain for public education would  

have been too obvious.  

In this Budget the State Govern-  

ment has increased expenditure on  

private schools from $585 million to  

$654 million. This represents far  

greater increase than that afforded  

to public schools.  

Federation calls on the Carr Gov-  

ernment to commit to significantly  

increase funding for public educa-  

tion in future Budgets.  

Page 3: Budget details  

Page 2: Two cases compared and contrasted  

Page 2: Refshauge on ice  

Page 3: Staffing agenda exposed  

Page 4: Bans remain  

Page 4: Greens' support  

Page 4: Interstate comparisons  

IRC makes its decision  

BRENDA SEYMOUR  

outlines the Industrial  

Relations Commission's  

decisions in Federation's  

and the lEU's Catholic  

schools cases.  

On June 9, after 30 hearing  

days with 65 witnesses, the Indus-  

trial Relations Commission (IRC)  

awarded teachers in public schools  

and TAFE 3.0 per cent salary rates  

of pay increase from July 1, 2004  

and further 3.5 per cent from Janu-  

ary 1,2005.  

This is in addition to the 5.5  

per cent interim increase decision  

continued on page  

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