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Yes Allen<br>
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</font><small><font face="Arial">We had an AEU rep out to our school to
talk about the agreement. She told us that the AEU accepted the Brumby
government's figure of 3% inflation this year (a few days before her
visit the Reserve Bank had published its figure of 4.5%) and 2% the
next few years - (the Reserve has said that it expects inflation for
the next to at least to be above 3%). Why a union negotiator would
accept the employer's figures over the official Reserve Bank rates is
totally incomprehensible to me. IF they are fair dinkum in representing
us, that is.</font></small><br>
<br>
<font face="Arial"><font color="#000000" size="2"><font size="2">I've
set up a discussion board for Victorian Teachers at </font><a
href="https://www.edumail.vic.gov.au/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://www.edumail.vic.gov.au/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://victorianteachersforum.mybb3.org/"
target="_blank"><font size="2">http://victorianteachersforum.mybb3.org/</font></a><font
size="2"> . I think we all need to talk about this in a non-fragmented
way.</font></font></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
color="#000000"> </font>Feel free to register there, post your
comments, and <em><u>please</u></em>
pass this info on to other teachers in other schools who might be
interested in reading and/or joining a discussion. If someone in any
particular school emails it to DL <em>yourschool</em> it should go to
everyone in their own school. This email needs to be passed on quickly
to get enough </font><font face="Arial" size="2">coverage of Victorian
teachers to form a serious debate about what to do with this proposed
2008 agreement.</font><br>
<br>
Brian Lennon<br>
<br>
Allan Barnes wrote:
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given that inflation is currently running at 4.1%, it doesn’t
even keep pace with the CPI. And it was the best deal that the AEU
could get!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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