24-hour TAFE strike draws attention to Government inaction
2 November 2022
Section: News
They don’t give a bugger about TAFE teachers, TAFE students or TAFE as an institution but they give a bugger about their own cushy nest; they all want to get re-elected in the March election. We need to loudly talk about why we’re not going to re-elect them.â€
Strike rally outside the office of TAFE Managing Director’s Ultimo Office
2 November 2022
Section: News
TAFE members of the NSW Teachers Federation at over 60 colleges across NSW will take protected industrial action today, striking for 24-hours.
TAFE crisis comes to Minister’s electorate office
31 October 2022
Section: News
Only yesterday a teacher said he was offered $150K plus a vehicle to come back on the tools. I can guarantee you Mr Henskens, this is not an isolated incident.â€
TAFE rallied outside the Minister’s Ku-ring-gai electoral office in Wahroonga, to voice their dissatisfaction with his failure to engage in good faith bargaining for the new TAFE enterprise agreement since TAFE NSW’s proposed enterprise agreement was rejected by employees in August.
Bad news for the teaching profession on World Teachers Day
28 October 2022
Section: Media Release
The Perrottet Government has been caught out undermining its own entry standards to the teaching profession as part of its failing approach to tackling growing teacher shortages.
Teacher shortage snag in Federal Budget’s TAFE offerings plan
27 October 2022
Section: News
The State Government needs to fix the teacher shortage before TAFE NSW will be able to offer the additional fee-free courses funded in the Federal Budget, Federation Deputy Secretary (Post-Schools) Phill Chadwick said.
Improvements to parental leave now accessible
25 October 2022
Section: News
Enhancements to paid parental leave were made available for NSW public service employees, including teachers, from 1 October 2022. It expands on the previous provisions introduced in 2021 to provide greater access to paid parental leave, regardless of gender.
Position: Director, Centre for Professional Learning
14 October 2022
Section: Administration
The Director is responsible to the General Secretary for their role in the operations of the CPL
Teachers and Principals rally at Industrial Relations Commission today
12 October 2022
Section: Media Release
Teachers and principals will rally outside the NSW Industrial Relations Commission in Parramatta this morning as new figures show the number of vacant permanent teaching positions has doubled to more than 2,000.
Federation welcomes Labor promise to tackle teacher shortage
7 October 2022
Section: News
Federation has welcomed NSW Labor’s pledge to tackle the statewide teacher shortage, committing to negotiate over uncompetitive wages and unsustainable workloads.
Get RED-dy for day of action
7 October 2022
Section: News
Federation has called on members to stand up and stand out for a day of action on Wednesday, 12 October, including a rally outside the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) in Parramatta.
NSW Labor commits to action on the causes of teacher shortage
6 October 2022
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation today welcomed the commitment by NSW Labor to take action on the causes of growing teacher shortages – uncompetitive salaries and unsustainable workloads.
All the drama and democracy
29 September 2022
Section: News
It’s not often your students get to stamp, laugh, shout and boo as part of an engaging and enriching lesson about democracy and drama.
Union calls for government to negotiate over wages and workload
28 September 2022
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation today called for the Perrottet Government to abandon plans to deliver a real wage cut to all teachers in light of the premier’s latest idea to significantly lift the salary of top teachers.
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.
Casual Teachers’ pay guaranteed on Queen’s holiday
20 September 2022
Section: News
NSW Teachers Federation has secured a guarantee from the Department of Education for casual teachers engaged to work on the public holiday on 22 September, set aside as the National Day of Mourning for the Queen.
Guides for setting up a safe, inclusive spaces in secondary schools launched
20 September 2022
Section: News
Comprehensive information and ideas for teachers and students on how to start up a Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) in a secondary school are now available online.
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.
We aren’t giving up and we aren’t going away
15 September 2022
Section: Columns
As part of our campaign, Fed Reps in recent weeks have been sending emails to their local MPs about the teacher shortages and the debilitating impacts they are having in schools.
Union supports campaign for World Cup legacy for migrant workers
13 September 2022
Section: News
For every goal that’s scored in the upcoming World Cup in Qatar, around 39 people will have died, former Socceroos captain Craig Foster told Federation Council on Saturday.