Need for lactation support highlighted during World Breastfeeding Week
6 August 2020
Section: News
The World Health Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund have called on governments to protect and promote women’s access to skilled breastfeeding counselling, which is a critical component of breastfeeding support.
Association spotlight: Batemans Bay Teachers’ Association
4 August 2020
Section: Member’s Voice
The immediate area of Batemans Bay, which is part of the Eurobodalla Shire with an overall population estimated in excess of 37,000, only has approximately 1500 residents.
Philippines: State’s terror campaign against teachers must stop
1 August 2020
Section: News
Philippines’ Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) has denounced the harassment of regional secretary of the union and public elementary school teacher Maria Cristy Borbe by military personnel.
Calculate how much a wage freeze will hurt your pocket
1 August 2020
Section: News
In the face of an assault on the wages of public sector workers, Unions NSW has launched an online calculator set to raise awareness of the financial damage the Berejiklian Government’s policy will do to workers in NSW.
Webinar program
31 July 2020
Section: News
Federation developed a program of free professional development courses specifically for casual and temporary members, which the union had planned to deliver face-to-face during 2020.
Students with disabilities left behind
31 July 2020
Section: News
As new reports highlight the growing funding gap between public and private students, research during the pandemic reveals that parents of students with a disability felt their children had been “left behind by Australia’s education system” during the crisis.
Edtech and COVID-19
28 July 2020
Section: Columns
Almost as insidious as the disease itself, multinational corporations, international coalitions and education technology businesses have seized the opportunity of the COVID-19 disruption to extend their tentacles into public education systems.
Experts discuss crisis recovery
27 July 2020
Section: News
The requirement for remote, or online, learning during the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the public education system in Australia to opportunistic edtech companies that have been waiting in the wings.
Education at the core of jobs-led virus recovery
25 July 2020
Section: News
More than a million secure jobs would flow into the Australian workplace under a comprehensive five-point economic reconstruction plan developed by the ACTU to steer the nation through a COVID-10 recovery.
Public education: Building great Australian lives
24 July 2020
Section: News
Becoming an actor was an unlikely career path for a young Deborah Mailman growing up in the north-western Queensland mining town of Mt Isa.
JobTrainer must fund TAFE to build recovery
20 July 2020
Section: News
It is essential that the JobTrainer announcement of a combined $1 billion federal, state and territory subsidy to boost Vocational Education and Training (VET) is focused on delivering high-quality education through TAFE.
Progress made on EDConnect service issues
14 July 2020
Section: News
In response to sustained representations by Federation on behalf of members, the Department is finally taking important steps towards improving the level of service provided by EDConnect.
Unions unite to shape post-pandemic world
11 July 2020
Section: News
Union leaders and progressive thinkers, including US civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton, joined an international online democracy conference at the end of June where trade unions from around the world shared ideas for an improved post-pandemic world.
Ukraine: Anti-worker legislation delayed following protests
11 July 2020
Section: News
In a series of warning protests on 30 June, trade unions from all sectors, including education, mobilised against proposed changes in labour law violating freedom of association, the right to organise, and the right to collective bargaining.
Fighting the privatisation of education
10 July 2020
Section: News
Federation’s Centre for Professional Learning is jointly presenting an online forum featuring international experts discussing ways to further the fight against the privatisation of education systems.
Time is running out to put your thoughts on the profession into writing
30 June 2020
Section: News
How do you feel about the mounting expectations placed on you? Do your colleagues feel the same way about these additional responsibilities?
Spotlight placed on LGBTIQ inclusion in the workforce
26 June 2020
Section: News
International Pride Month — June — is when many organisations reflect on LGBTIQ inclusive practices and how far they have come.
Media release: A cruel blow for students as Govt threatens school funding
25 June 2020
Section: Media Release
The Berejiklian Government must not be allowed to use students as pawns in its attempt to impose a wage freeze across the public sector.
Media release: New curriculum requires additional resources
23 June 2020
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation has welcomed the unhurried approach and commitment to working with teachers in the development and implementation of the new curriculum.
Once again, an inquiry will draw attention to the value of teachers’ work
19 June 2020
Section: News
The last time a comprehensive independent inquiry into the value of teachers’ work was conducted was in 2002, to inform Federation’s case in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission in 2003.