Government puts pen to paper, inking pay rises for teachers
20 September 2023
Section: News
It’s official. The Heads of Agreement poised to make beginning and top-of-scale school teachers the nation’s best paid – and…
Historic advance: In-principle agreement to boost NSW teachers’ pay and tackle shortage
5 September 2023
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation’s Executive has reached an in-principle Heads of Agreement with the NSW Government to tackle the teacher…
NSW teacher shortage won’t be solved with 2.5 per cent
22 August 2023
Section: Media Release
The State Government must rule out a 2.5 per cent wage cap or risk a worsening teacher shortage. The Government…
Teachers turn up the dial on Minns Government
18 August 2023
Section: News
Members fed up with NSW Labor’s failure to act decisively on teacher salaries, the teacher shortage and excessive workloads expressed…
Rallies target NSW Labor over failure to keep its promise to teachers
17 August 2023
Section: News
The latest in a growing series of rallies displaying members’ discontent with NSW Labor walking away from a deal to…
Better staffing entitlements the goal
4 July 2023
Section: News
Federation’s staffing claims for schools and TAFE are “what’s necessary for a quality, strong and robust public education system, for…
Amendments to the 2021-2023 School Staffing Agreement
5 June 2023
Section: News
Recent changes announced to the Staffing Agreement, including access to service transfers, mark the culmination of longstanding Federation policy to…
It’s time for more than thanks
16 September 2021
Section: News
Thousands of teachers and principals across the state joined a special broadcast to launch Federation’s new wages and workload campaign, More Than Thanks, this morning.
United we bargain, divided we beg
15 September 2021
Section: Columns
“We’d had enough,” said casual teacher member Denise Walker, reflecting on what motivated her and her Kiama colleagues back in 1988 to travel to Sydney to be part of a march down Macquarie Street and a rally in the Domain to reject the Greiner/Metherell government’s attack on public education.
New School Staffing Agreement signed
26 May 2021
Section: News
A new School Staffing Agreement will operate from day 1, term 3, 2021, until the end of term 4, 2023.
Put it in your diary: Federation broadcast for school members on 9 June
7 May 2021
Section: News
The improvements to teachers’ working conditions and salaries achieved in negotiations for the new schools award will be commensurate to our strength and determination on the ground, Federation president Angelo Gavrielatos said yesterday (5 May).
Staffing Agreement signals union win
24 April 2020
Section: News
While Federation has pursued the health and safety, industrial, employment and professional rights of teachers during this pandemic, the union has also secured a new 2020/21 Staffing Agreement that will commence day one, term 2.
Statewide meetings endorse new award
10 December 2019
Section: News
Federation members came together at more than 200 venues across the state on 5 December to overwhelmingly endorse the new salaries and conditions Award for the next two years
Release time high on agenda
16 November 2019
Section: News
Federation is pursuing the employment of additional permanent classroom, executive, specialist and non-school based teaching positions
Meetings commence on teacher salaries
15 November 2019
Section: News
Formal negotiations have commenced with the Department of Education around the new schools Award, which determines the salaries and working conditions of all teachers
How many students should be in my class?
10 November 2019
Section: News
The schools Staffing Agreement 2016–2020, between the Department of Education and Federation, notes: “Class sizes will be planned generally on the following basis and will have regard to the needs of the school”
School Award negotiations and you
1 October 2019
Section: News
Bargaining is about collective power and strength.
Teachers’ voice to drive negotiations
23 September 2019
Section: News
The collective voice of school members — who want enhancement of their profession’s status and support for their work — will be taken into upcoming Award and Staffing Agreement negotiations with the Department of Education.
Meal allowance claim forms
15 August 2018
Section: News
Teachers working outside usual hours now have a mechanism for claiming a meal allowance directly from the Department of Education.
Enhanced school staffing entitlements
29 March 2018
Section: News
Significant improvements to school staffing entitlements will be one of the priority policy objectives of Federation in the lead up to the March 2019 state election.
Policy core threat to public schools
2 March 2018
Section: News
In the lead up to the March 2019 NSW election, Federation will continue to expose the Department’s Local Schools, Local Decisions policy as the single greatest threat to teacher permanency and high-quality, high-equity public schooling for all students.