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Hectic campaigning year
Federation is doing everything it can to achieve a fair and reasonable resolution to the current disputes.
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Negotiated settlement or 48-hour stoppage will go ahead
In seeking a resolution, Federation has negotiated in good faith with the Department and Ministry.
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No service transfer, no incentive
A teacher from a harder to staff country school has been denied a service transfer.
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Retired troops called to help TAFE
'Dad's Army' is outraged at the insulting salaries offer.
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June 2008

The President Writes
A plan for settlement
Settlement of the staffing dispute will require a statewide staffing system including genuine service transfers.
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Campaigns
The Premier must act
Potential terms of settlement for the staffing dispute have been made abundantly clear.
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Campaigns
Industrial action on staffing to continue
Federation members around the state have followed up the strongly supported statewide strikes on April 8 and May 22 with locally-organised stopwork protest action in the staffing campaign.
[ Full Story ]
TAFE
Action to defend professional standards in TAFE
City and Broken Hill TAFE teachers have stopped work over the downgrading of teacher education qualifications.
[ Full Story ]
Campaigns
Keen interest in salaries and inflation movements
Federation is keeping a watchful eye on pay settlements in other professions.
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Working conditions
DET fined $105,000 for failing OH&S obligations
A student's history of violence must be made available to principals and teachers before enrolments are completed.
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Professional issues
Quality learning environments
There's compelling evidence governments must urgently redress the continuing under-funding of public education infrastructure.
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Working conditions
The value of paid maternity leave
The Rudd Government has asked the Productivity Commission to recommend whether Australia should introduce a paid maternity leave scheme.
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Restructuring
AMES industrial campaign starts
Adult Migrant English Service teachers protested both outside and inside the AMES head office in Mary Street, Surry Hills on June 23 over an imposed restructure of the service.
[ Full Story ]
Industrial relations
Laws threaten legitimate union activity
Noel Washington faces jail. His alleged crime? Sticking to the union.
[ Full Story ]
Finance
Borrower beware of the mortgage
The social security assets test is unfairly trapping retired workers.
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Campaigns
A-E student reports ban remains
Federation's ban relating to student reports remains in place.
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Salaries
Win for temporary school teachers
Some temporary teachers will need to submit a written request to DET seeking a review of their salary and status.
[ Full Story ]
Professional issues
Teaching out of subject area and oversized classes
Ten percent of teachers who responded to a survey have an oversize class and more than 20 per cent of secondary teachers have been forced to teach outside their subject area.
[ Full Story ]
Annual Conference
Conference theme to inspire debate
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State Government
Program spending disappears from NSW Budget papers
State Budget papers seem to contain fewer details as the years go on.
[ Full Story ]
Working conditions
Real incentives needed
Federation continues to push for an improved rental subsidy.
[ Full Story ]
Funding
Schools should be an advertising free zone
If public education were appropriately funded there would be no need to open the flood gates to corporations, Greens NSW MLC John Kaye said.
[ Full Story ]
Membership
Discounts for members now available
Special deals for travel, leisure and other services can be found on the union's website.
[ Full Story ]
Conference
Central schools delegates disappointed with Della
John Della Bosca, Andrew Stoner and Richard Torbay spoke at the recent Central Schools Conference.
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Public education
Insufficient funds for TAFE in Budget
The NSW Budget's allocation of funds to TAFE makes a mockery of the Budget's slogan.
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