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EDUCATION
Fix this textJOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEOERATION
Fix this textAgreement No. PP 255 0 0 3 001 0 4
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Fix this textMinister on salaries strike
Fix this textby Sue Simpson
Fix this textTeacher lobbying has finally
Fix this textbrought about the first discussion
Fix this textbetween the Federation’s Senior
Fix this textOfficers and Minister John
Fix this textAquilina on the Federation’s
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Fix this textAlthough it is less than a month
Fix this textuntil the teachers’ salary awards
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Fix this textFederation first presented its
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Fix this textMinister, the Minister has still not
Fix this textentered into salary negotiations.
Fix this textAt a meeting on May 25 the
Fix this textMinister indicated that the process
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Fix this textinvolved” than usual because of
Fix this textthe State Budget being delivered
Fix this textJune 22, just over a week before
Fix this textthe awards expire. He went on to
Fix this textsay that teacher salaries were
Fix this textbeing considered in the context of
Fix this texta whole of Government approach
Fix this textto public sector salaries in order to
Fix this textcontrol the potential of “flow-
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Fix this textmajor public sector salary negoti-
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Fix this textRegarding teacher salaries in par-
Fix this textticular the new awards were to be
Fix this textconsistent with election commit-
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Fix this textthere was the usual argument
Fix this textabout the finite size of the Budget
Fix this textallocation with Federation’s claim
Fix this textnot fitting in to his Budget alloca-
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Fix this textgenuine negotiations.
Fix this textOn May 26 Mr Aquilina
Fix this textembarked on a misleading media
Fix this textcampaign around a background
Fix this textbriefing paper prepared for MPs
Fix this textin response to our lobbying. With
Fix this textthe co-operation of the Daily
Fix this textTelegraph, the Minister attempted
Fix this textto turn the community against
Fix this textpublic education teachers by pro-
Fix this textpagandising public school teach-
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Fix this textIt was a thoroughly dishonest
Fix this textattack by a desperate Minister.
Fix this textThis background briefing paper
Fix this textrefers to “salary packages” rather
Fix this textthan award rates claiming that
Fix this textmore than 80 percent of teachers
Fix this textearn “a salary package” of
Fix this text$54,360! Superannuation is
Fix this textincluded in the “salary package”
Fix this textwithout distinguishing the very
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Fix this textschemes. Many women, younger
Fix this textteachers, as well as casual and
Fix this textpart-time teachers only have the
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Fix this textthat the majority of unpromoted
Fix this textpermanent teachers at the top of
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Fix this textthere for 10 to 30 years. The
Fix this text20,000 casual teachers (the major-
Fix this textity women) are outside the calcu-
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Fix this textboost the “average” salary pack-
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Fix this textincremental salary barrier. Also
Fix this textinvisible in this calculation are the
Fix this textincreasing numbers of teachers,
Fix this textmainly women, working perma-
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Fix this textof part-time leave. Beginning
Fix this textteachers are depicted as particu-
Fix this textlarly greedy. Not only is their
Fix this textbeginning salary depicted as
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Fix this textreceived increases “up to 42.38
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Fix this textDoes this mean that incremental
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Fix this textThe attack ignored the higher
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Fix this textThe Government must ensure
Fix this textthat there are funds in the State
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Fix this textensure that public school teachers’
Fix this textsalaries are not undercut by the
Fix this textever increasing handouts to pri-
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Fix this textThe Government in its first
Fix this textterm established a very successful
Fix this textPay Equity Inquiry. Removing the
Fix this textincremental pay barrier for casual
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Fix this textcolleges would be consistent with
Fix this textGovernment policy announced
Fix this textbefore the election. The Labor
Fix this textCouncil, however, has expressed
Fix this textfears that the second term Can-
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Fix this textimplementing legislative changes
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Fix this textLobbying of all MPs must be
Fix this textintensified in the lead up to the
Fix this textJune 22 State Budget and beyond.
Fix this textMake sure you have issued an
Fix this textinvitation to your local MP to visit
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Fix this textSue Simpson
Fix this text! is the President.
Fix this textAquilina telegraphs
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Fix this textby Dennis Long
Fix this textEducation Minister John Aquilina
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Fix this textand status claim. An article in the
Fix this textMay 27 edition of the Daily
Fix this textTelegraph said that “the State
Fix this textGovernment has taken a hard line
Fix this textagainst teachers “and that Mr
Fix this textAquilina “revealed more than 80
Fix this textper cent of teachers were cur-
Fix this textrently earning more than $54,000
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Fix this textThe Telegraph article coin-
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Fix this textCaucus. Federation believes that
Fix this textthe briefing of ALP members is a
Fix this textresponse to the lobbying efforts of
Fix this textFederation members. Federation
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Fix this textRepresentatives have also been
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Fix this textIt appears that the figure of
Fix this text$54,000 is drawn from the brief-
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Fix this textsuperannuation (see accompany-
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Fix this textKathy Lipari also has teachers on
Fix this text“the top of the scale” on a “pack-
Fix this textage of almost $52,000” when in
Fix this textfact the rate for teachers on step
Fix this text13 at the top of the common incre-
Fix this textmental scale is $50,175 not
Fix this textincluding superannuation.
Fix this textMr Aquilina is quoted as say-
Fix this texting that Federation has presented
Fix this texta 30 per cent wage claim.
Fix this text(Federation’s claim is for 7.5 per
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Fix this text“According to Mr Aquilina,”
Fix this textthe Telegraph reported, “a 30 per
Fix this textcent wages increase would cost
Fix this textthe community $654 million in
Fix this textthe first year, rising to $3.6 billion
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Fix this textThe article said the current
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Fix this textteachers is due to expire on June
Fix this text30 but that “the Government is yet
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Fix this textDennis Long
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Fix this textEducation is not immune to casualisation
Fix this textby Brenda Seymour
Fix this textIf you have read about the casual-
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Fix this textagency workers and assumed it
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Fix this textThe statistics indicating an
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Fix this textFor schools, for example, there
Fix this textwere 44,688 full-time permanent
Fix this textteachers in 1996 with 3877 teach-
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Fix this textwith 26,000 casual school teach-
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Fix this textIn TAFE, based on 1999 fig-
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Fix this textmanent teachers and 97 perma-
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Fix this textto 18,768 casuals. (Casual teach-
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Fix this textAt a conference run by the
Fix this textAustralian Centre for Industrial
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Fix this textJohn Buchanan reported that
Fix this textworkplaces using casuals had
Fix this textrisen from 64 percent in 1990 to
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Fix this text14 per cent to 21 per cent.
Fix this textBuchanan indicated more
Fix this textworkplaces are reporting retrench-
Fix this textments. He said that in 1995, 60
Fix this textpercent of workplaces with more
Fix this textthan 500 workers had experienced
Fix this textretrenchments, up from 39 per
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Fix this textThe number of employees
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Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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