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Somalia: Education union seeks guarantee of teachers’ salaries during COVID-19 school closures

While all schools in Somalia have been closed, the Somali National Union of Teachers is actively working to ensure that teachers, particularly those working in private educational settings, will continue to receive their salaries.

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New schools’ Award approved by Industrial Relations Commission

The Industrial Relations Commission has handed down orders bringing the Crown Employees (Teachers in Schools and Related Employees) Salaries and Conditions Award 2020 into effect from 1 January, 2020.

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Survey will guide salary bargaining

Federation has been holding meetings with TAFE members to undertake a survey and discuss upcoming enterprise bargaining.

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Statewide meetings endorse new award

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

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Meetings commence on teacher salaries

Formal negotiations have commenced with the Department of Education around the new schools Award, which determines the salaries and working conditions of all teachers

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Teachers continue wage and conditions struggle

Former General Secretary and President Max Taylor has compared the industrial struggles in TAFE today with problems of the past, noting the union has repeatedly staved off teaching-load increases

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TAFE negotiations and you: engagement imperative

TAFE member engagement in Federation’s bargaining campaign will strengthen the union’s power in protecting and improving your salaries and working conditions.

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School Award negotiations and you

Bargaining is about collective power and strength.

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Federation forces Department to fix the glitch

​The union’s persistence has led to the Department of Education working to rectify the situation where about 9000 teachers working on part-time leave will be left without income for a period during the summer vacation.

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Are you being paid what you are owed?

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.

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Teachers’ voice to drive negotiations

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.

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Week of action gets traction

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.

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Members unite over unjust wages transition

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.

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NSW Government’s unjust wages transition motivates unified member response

Federation members are taking collective action to fight pay inequities inflicted upon their public school teacher colleagues by the NSW Coalition Government.

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TAFE award talks to be informed by member opinions

TAFE members will be surveyed in workplaces on a range of industrial and professional issues as Federation begins planning for the next enterprise bargaining agreement, Annual Conference determined on Monday.

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Union commits to real growth in salaries, improved working conditions

Results of the schools salary survey of members were reported to Annual Conference and the Federation will now embark on developing a log of claims in preparation for salaries negotiations to begin in term 4 with the Department of Education.

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Federation intervention wins individual salary adjustments for members

A Federation member who voiced her frustration over the Department of Education’s failure to progress her on the salary scale in a post to the union’s Facebook page is glad she took the advice contained in the General Secretary’s reply — to contact her union for assistance.

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Salary rise for prac teacher supervisors

Teachers supervising student teachers in NSW public schools will receive incremental daily rate increases of 13.3 per cent over the next three years.

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New Award talks to commence later this year

Negotiations for a new award – the enforceable industrial document that sets out your salaries and conditions – will commence later this year.

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Pre-2016 Teacher Pay Inequity

The New South Wales Teachers Federation is actively addressing and prioritising the resolution of the pay disparity that has occurred as a result of the transition to Standards-Based Remuneration (SBR).

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Meeting sought over significant underpayment issues

The Department has agreed to meet with Federation over significant issues relating to the underpayment of a “large numbers of teachers”, after the union has been inundated with complaints.

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