Teacher's dispute finally over

According to Clive Haggar (radio interview) there will be a shortage of teachers by 2010.

Like we didn’t already know that.

The Transfer Round was out today. I received my letter this morning.

About time….

Thanks Edumacated. I just checked out the arbitration document and an interesting thing stood out to me:

“The success of the ACT Government system supports the conclusion that teachers in the ACT are adequately supported and not overworked. It is improbable that an education system can function effectively if it is not being properly resourced and its teachers are being overworked.”

Therefore, if ACT teachers work their butts off to make the ACT system the best in the world, they can’t possibly be overworked and under-resourced. So, if we want more money to go to our teachers and our education system, better make sure it’s really crappy with poor student outcomes before you can expect a decent payrise.

The modified “award” is here… I’m assuming these are just tacked on to the current EBA 😉

JTK, if she’s permanent she’ll find out on Monday – they want everyone to “know” at the same time.

Why they just don’t issue a press release telling teachers to come and collect the letters from Manning Clark House is beyond me. Or even e-mail it to them using the e-mail system they use for payroll.

It’d save a fortune in stamps and it would demonstrate to those in the Transfer Round that the Dept wants to notify them immediately, instead of dragging it out to 6 days before we go back to work.

The mind boggles.

KidKenosha – It was total, pure sarcasm.

I am married to a teacher, who is currently unemployed, as she is waiting to see what the govmit does.

At least, she agrees that if I worked for am employer who treated me the same way she has been treated, she would be nagging daily. (And believe me, I have worked for some pretty useless employers in the past!!) – At least my employers were simply tardy with the pay, I was never sacked over Christmas, only to be re-hired in Jan.

It all reeks of Govmit if you ask me.

Interesting read Ed.

Check out

pdf link [ARRGH!]

for the details of the arbitration.

Everyone finds out Monday – even though the letters are being done today and tomorrow. I’m not allowed to pick mine up before my trip because it would be “unfair” to the others.

Given that next week is 4 days long, this is getting beyond a joke.

Thank you AEU and Andrew Barr.

GnT I understand your frustration, but part of the issue about pay during strike action sits firmly with our new and wonderful Work Choices laws.. e.g. getting docked min 4 hours pay even if you went on strike for 30 mins. That’s not ACT Govt. But still taking this long to negotiate is rediculous, the education of the next generation and therefore the pay of teachers should be up there with the highest public funding priorities as far as I’m concerned.