Perrottet plan to put unqualified teachers in the classroom
27 September 2022
Section: Media Release
The NSW Government is pressing ahead with a plan to put unqualified teachers in the classroom despite previously rejecting it as expensive, unworkable and at odds with the government’s focus on quality teaching.
NSW recruits two teachers in a year in response to statewide shortage
25 September 2022
Section: Media Release
The NSW Government attempts to fix the teacher shortages and recruit the thousands of additional teachers the state needs are failing with new figures showing only two teachers have been recruited from interstate and overseas in a year.
Large increase in the number of early career teachers leaving schools
24 September 2022
Section: Media Release
The number of permanent public school teachers leaving in the first five years of their career in NSW has jumped to a 13 year high as unsustainable workloads and uncompetitive salaries take their toll.
TAFE Teachers to Stop Work and Impose Work Bans
19 September 2022
Section: Media Release
TAFE teachers, frustrated by the failure of TAFE NSW to bargain in good faith around uncompetitive salaries, exploitation of casual employees and untenable workloads, will hold stop work meetings as part of protected industrial action and the first stop work in nearly 12 years.
TAFE teachers vote YES to Protected Industrial Action
9 September 2022
Section: Media Release
NSW TAFE teachers now join a growing list of State Government workers outraged by the Perrottet Government’s state wages cap of an insulting 2.53%.
TAFE teachers reject Perrottet’s salary cap
1 September 2022
Section: Media Release
At a time of a national skills crisis the Perrottet Government should be investing in TAFE and its teachers. As a result, TAFE teachers have rejected the NSW Government’s insulting 2.53 per cent salary cap in an Enterprise Agreement Ballot whose results were revealed today.
NSW Government is misleading parliament and parents over teacher shortages
4 August 2022
Section: Media Release
Appearing before the NSW parliamentary Inquiry into teacher shortages in New South Wales†the NSW Teachers Federation will put the spotlight on the NSW Government’s denial and attempted concealment of the severity of the teacher shortage crisis and its impact on students and teachers alike.
Minister’s decision to use university students to fill teacher shortage a desperate act’
22 July 2022
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation has called the Government’s decision to deploy university students into public school classrooms a desperate actâ€.
New report reveals NSW Government is overfunding private schools to the tune of $850 million.
5 July 2022
Section: Media Release
A new report, commissioned by the NSW Teachers Federation and to be presented to Federation’s Annual Conference today, has discovered the NSW Government is overfunding private schools in NSW by almost $850 million, while choosing to under-fund public schools by $2 billion every single year.
Principals and teachers strike over shortages
30 June 2022
Section: Media Release
Principals and teachers from government and Catholic schools in NSW are striking today over the worsening teacher shortages which are affecting the education of children across the state.
Tens of thousands of teachers send Premier a strong message on workload and salaries
30 June 2022
Section: Media Release
Teachers from Government and Catholic schools in NSW took strike action across NSW and the ACT today, calling on the NSW Government to urgently act on the teacher shortage and its underlying cause – uncompetitive salaries and unsustainable workloads.
HSC students stuck in classes of over 50 students due to the teacher shortages
26 June 2022
Section: Media Release
Teachers and principals have reported mass disruptions to student learning in NSW public schools due to worsening teacher shortages.
Federation welcomes Opposition Leader’s commitment to build more public preschools
23 June 2022
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation has today welcomed Opposition Leader Chris Minns’s announcement that a Labor State Government will provide a preschool for every new public primary school as well as building 100 extra public preschools in its first term.
Public and Catholic school teachers to strike on 30 June
21 June 2022
Section: Media Release
The decision to take 24-hour joint strike action on 30 June was made after a historic joint meeting between the executives of the NSW Teachers Federation and the Independent Education Union of Australia (NSW/ACT).
Federation welcomes NSW Government’s commitment to universal pre-kindergarten for all children
16 June 2022
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation has today welcomed the Government’s announcement to invest more than $5.8 billion over 10 years to introduce universal pre-kindergarten for all children in NSW by 2030.
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.
Federation says paltry wage cap raise ‘adds insult to injury’
6 June 2022
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation has said the NSW Government’s announcement to lift the wages cap policy from 2.5 per cent to three per cent is not good enoughâ€.
Teachers Federation welcomes election of Albanese Government
22 May 2022
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation congratulates the Hon. Anthony Albanese MP and the ALP on winning government.
Teachers to go on strike in Sydney on May 4
3 May 2022
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation members will proceed with strike action in Sydney’s Macquarie Street on Wednesday May 4.
Federation welcomes Opposition’s pledge to ditch Government’s flawed student behaviour strategy
30 April 2022
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation has welcomed NSW Labor’s commitment in today’s Daily Telegraph to scrap the Perrottet Government’s controversial new student behaviour strategy policy should they win the election next year.
Federation calls on Premier to honour his commitment that no teacher would fall behind on wages
27 April 2022
Section: Media Release
With inflation now running at 5.1 per cent, the NSW Teachers Federation today called on Premier Dominic Perrottet to honour his commitment that no public sector worker would fall behind on wages.