Are you being paid what you are owed?
26 September 2019
Section: News
While Federation is committed to rectifying the teacher pay disparity issue as a priority, it is clear some teachers are not being paid their correct salary under the existing arrangements.
Podcast interview raises key issues
25 September 2019
Section: News
Federation President Maurie Mulheron used the platform of Department of Education Secretary Mark Scott’s Every Student podcast to express the need for improvements in the areas of staffing and system-wide support for the work of teachers.
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.
Week of action gets traction
21 September 2019
Section: News
We came, we saw … they responded. It could be the catchcry that sums up Federation’s week of action over pay inequity for pre-2016 teachers.
Department hoses down threat of asbestos
20 September 2019
Section: News
The Department of Education’s asbestos register lists 2185 schools as being contaminated with the hazardous building material, with 109 identified as having the worst category of the substance.
Falling GDP spend on education magnified in new OECD figures
20 September 2019
Section: News
New figures released this month in a snapshot of education jurisdictions around the world underline the grim extent of the Morrison Government’s cuts to public school funding.
Your workplace contacts
19 September 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
Michelle Millard, Wauchope Public School
Your Workplace Contacts
19 September 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
The resolution of a dispute at Narraweena Public School on the northern beaches inspired Federation Representative Pierre-Yves Dejean to coin a new union catchcry: “Divided we beg, united we bargain!”
Association Spotlight: Moree Teachers Association
17 September 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
Our community Moree has a population of a little under 10,000 people. We have a transient population at times and our numbers change depending on the strength of the local agricultural industry of cotton and wheat.
Learning conditions should not be determined by a popularity contest
4 September 2019
Section: News
Public schools desperate for capital works funding have resorted to applying to a community grants program.
Overturned expenses decision to benefit others
29 August 2019
Section: News
Federation has successfully overturned a decision by the Department of Education that has led to members having certainty over their rights to access Transferred Officers Compensation when transferring under Section 51A.
Statewide solution to inequity involves raising the school staffing entitlement
28 August 2019
Section: News
System failures are denying the necessary resources and staffing that schools need to realise the potential of rural students, says Federation Acting Deputy President Henry Rajendra.
ACARA masks truth about NAPLAN data
28 August 2019
Section: News
ACARA’s ‘nothing to see here’ approach to the NAPLAN 2019 data release and its mishandling of the NAPLAN online debacle has reinforced yet again the need for a comprehensive review of the entire NAPLAN testing regime.
Association Spotlight: Wellington Teachers Association
27 August 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
Our association enjoys strong Federation membership and Wellington TA meetings are generally well attended, with most regular attendees being high-school staff.
Share your ideas for a better work life
26 August 2019
Section: News
Federation is not only an industrial union for all public education teachers and related employees in NSW, we are also the professional body for those teachers, educators and education-related professionals.
Your workplace
23 August 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
Federation’s support and guidance to resolve a workplace issue inspired Sharree Gardner to ensure colleagues would not find themselves without the valuable assistance of their union.
Paper plane
21 August 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
Last week, I arrived at school, attended my morning briefing, sat down at my desk and had a feeling that I should be somewhere else. Not on a tropical island or at home in my bed, but a real feeling that I wasn’t supposed to be at work.
Members unite over unjust wages transition
21 August 2019
Section: News
NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell and her government colleagues from around the state have been hearing from Federation members that teachers want an immediate resolution to the standards-based pay inequalities for teachers in public schools, created by the NSW Government’s public sector wages policy.
Richest schools get cream of government funding
13 August 2019
Section: News
The gaping divide between Australia’s four biggest-spending schools and the poorest 1800 schools has graphically exposed the Morrison Government’s handouts to rich non-government schools at the expense of the public system, Federation President Maurie Mulheron said.
NSW Government’s unjust wages transition motivates unified member response
12 August 2019
Section: News
Federation members are taking collective action to fight pay inequities inflicted upon their public school teacher colleagues by the NSW Coalition Government.