TAFE teachers stop work in the far west

	Stopwork photo courtesy of Barrier Miner Newspaper Broken Hill

TAFE Teachers in the Far West Region of NSW including Broken Hill, Wilcannia and Menindee, stopped work for two hours on 19 June to protest the downgrading of full time TAFE teaching qualifications to a Certificate IV and in support of their Sydney metropolitan colleagues who were demonstrating outside State Parliament.

Jim Nolan, President of the Far West branch of the TAFE Teachers Association, reported that the motion to stop work was passed unanimously at a Branch meeting on 18 June.

Teachers held a protest rally and free community BBQ in the main street of Broken Hill in front of the main campus of Broken Hill College. The rally heard speeches condemning the downgrading of TAFE teacher qualifications and chanted slogans including 'Della Bosca Get Real, Cert 4 No Deal' and 'Don't Dumb Down TAFE'.

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