Parliamentary report links psychological injury to workload, teacher shortage
5 December 2023
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation has strongly endorsed a NSW parliamentary committee’s recognition that crushing workloads are leading to more psychological…
Change for the better
24 April 2023
Section: Columns
Welcome back to term 2! Today’s live stream broadcast with the Education Minister Prue Car and Acting Secretary Murat Dizdar…
The education choice
2 March 2023
Section: News
Teachers face an important choice on 25 March, with the major parties presenting a very different view of what they…
More than 3,300 vacant teaching positions in public schools
18 January 2023
Section: Media Release
The extent of the teacher shortage crisis has been revealed in new government figures showing there were 3,311 vacant permanent…
Workload: the great sleight of hand
It is universally the case that the profession rightly bemoans the persistent collection of data in schools, its rise now repeatedly substantiated over a number of years as dragging teachers and principals away from their core business and what they signed up for: teaching and learning, progressing their students and public school communities. It’s a well-researched and evidenced phenomenon, known as the datafication of the teaching profession†and its insidious impact is being felt around the globe.
Risky business: workload and injury
A recent amendment to the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017 makes it unequivocal in relation to the Department of Education and TAFE NSW’s responsibilities to respond to, manage and prevent psychosocial risks in the workplace.
Strategic plan approved for NSW election
3 July 2022
Section: News
Federation Annual Conference today approved a comprehensive plan to build broad community understanding†of the central planks of the More Than Thanks campaign, leading up to the March 2023 state election.
When you fail teachers, you fail children
22 June 2022
Section: Columns
We are in serious danger of burning out a generation of teachers, lost through overwork and disenchantment with the way their focus is constantly taken from their students to a mind-numbing amount of administration and compliance work. They also see a government in denial, unwilling to stand up for the profession or address the root causes of the shortages: the uncompetitive salaries and crippling workloads that are turning people away from teaching.
NSW Government given a week to act on teacher shortage crisis
14 June 2022
Section: Media Release
An extraordinary meeting of the NSW Teachers Federation Executive has today called on the NSW Government to immediately revise its wages policy and to urgently negotiate an outcome that will put an end to the teacher shortage crisis facing NSW schools.
Teachers send a loud and clear message to Premier
4 May 2022
Section: News
More than 15,000 members descended on NSW Parliament in Sydney on 4 May to send a loud and clear message to the Premier and his Government: Enough is enough!
Teachers give NSW Premier a month to resolve shortages, salaries and workload issues
20 February 2022
Section: Media Release
In a historic move, NSW Teachers Federation State Council has resolved to defer further industrial action giving the Premier an opportunity to engage in genuine negotiations with the union.
A day 10 years in the making
14 December 2021
Section: Columns
Tuesday 7 December, 2021 has been etched into the history of the NSW Teachers Federation. For the first time in…
The NSW Premier needs to listen to teachers and principals
7 December 2021
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation said today’s strike action sent a powerful message to the state’s premier about the need to…
Growing teacher shortages and NSW could miss out on thousands of teachers
29 November 2021
Section: Media Release
A confidential government document warns NSW has a large and growing shortage of teachers and says the state could miss…
Why we must take industrial action over salaries and workloads
27 November 2021
Section: Columns
Politicians and public servants love to talk about “evidence-based policy making”. They trot out the phrase to accompany all sorts…
Teachers to strike over workload, salaries, and shortages
27 November 2021
Section: Media Release
NSW public school teachers and principals will strike on Tuesday December 7 over the Government’s failure to address unsustainable workloads and uncompetitive salaries which are contributing to growing shortages of…
Muswellbrook and Maitland demand More Than Thanks
3 November 2021
Section: News
Teachers in Muswellbrook and Maitland have turned out to voice their concerns at the NSW Government’s inaction over worsening teacher shortages.
It’s up to all of us
29 October 2021
Section: Columns
The road to winning this campaign lies ahead of us.
Government’s great deceit … (and we have the proof)
15 October 2021
Section: Columns
There is often a gap between what governments say and what they know.
Strong support for an investment in public school teachers in NSW
5 October 2021
Section: Media Release
A clear majority of people in NSW support higher wages and more preparation time for public school teachers, new polling shows.
Unite over shared need for better working conditions on 9 June
3 June 2021
Section: News
“I want two hours of additional release from face-to-face teaching that will enable us more time to be able to respond to student needs,” said Chester Hill Public School Federation Representative Chantelle Baker.