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And yes heaps of ATN members are lefties.
And yes Labor still attracts most left leaning organised
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SKY Meetings Friday 25th June
(Week 9) !!
Additional 7.5% for all teachers.
Pay now or cut the workload !
MOTION
The 12% pay deal falls short of a just settlement. The intervention of
Premier Carr into the IRC deliberations leads us to reject this offer. The
IRC and State Government have gone one step further to undermine public
education with the payment of additional monies for promotion positions to
the private school sector.
Action points -
1. We call any reopened IRC case to consider a 7.5 % rise across all public
school pay positions, not just promotion positions.
2. We call on NSWTF State Conference to consider a campaign of rolling
strike action until the Commission considers a general increase.
3. We also call for indefinite bans on the following items in recognition
that the Commission stated we have increased workload but then reduced our
payment because of Carr¹s intervention
Annual School Reports
Primary Portfolio
ELLA, BST, SNAP, PWA, and Computer Skills Tests
4. We oppose any change to the working conditions of Corrective Services
teachers.
IRC What's that?
So now is the time for state-wide meetings to reject the
12% offer. We need an offer that will attract new teachers,
retain current graduates and ensure our disadvantaged
schools are fully staffed.
That’s right disadvantaged schools. Not priority schools
Mr Howard.
You change the name but you can't dismiss social
circumstances.
Why Do We Say No Mass Testing
?
Check these links :-
Global Testing: from George Bush to John Howard
But don’t believe us.
It was a sticking point in the latest pay hearings at
the IRC. Clause 18.3 of the last award (2001) was forced
upon us by the Carr government. It mandates Federation
agreement to ELLA, SNAP, BST and Computing Skills Testing.
This raises a key question.
Why is testing included in an industrial award of the
conditions of a workforce sector?
Answer. Because in reality, mass centralised,
standardised, testing is not about quality in education,
it's about control. He who controls the standards of
knowledge, controls knowledge ( and sorry about the sexist
language but who’s the Director of Education? - yep back to
bloke after a short lived equal opportunity experiment!
Still, the $330,000pa helps the old super payout, what
chaps?))
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 Events
Timeline
SKY Stop Work
Meetings
9 am Friday 25th June
At a club near you. Check Fed fax
stream at your workplace.
Next ATN Meeting
THURSDAY 4.30pm JULY 1st.
Royal Exhibition Hotel.
Devonshire Street, east side of Central Station
Discuss pay, state conference and opposition to the proposed Institute of
Teachers.
NSWTF State
Conference
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
July 4,5,6 2004
Conference is listed as the next
official debate about the pay campaign. It will occur just
after the budget and will consider any of Carr's education budget cuts.
Call your Fed organiser to fill a
vacancy or get in for a day or two on a proxy from another
teacher.
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Contact Details
The Activist Teachers Network seeks to mobilise teachers at the school,
association and council level for pay justice. We want to continue the
struggle for working conditions with united action across schools, TAFE,
AMES and Corrective Services with regular statewide rallies and meetings of
all NSWTF.
Contact: John Morris 97736054w 95587051h
0409777173
atn-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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