[Year 12 IT Apps] o/t: Gov/AEU Agreement

Tue May 6 22:18:57 EST 2008

Has anyone considered that there has been a significant win for the 
government too?

With staff being required to work an extra 50 minutes a week, that is one 
teacher allotment for every 20 teachers per week.  Does this mean that the 
government can reduce the staffing numbers in each school.  So teachers will 
work a little more each week, and if total school allotments remain the 
same, schools will have "excess staff ".

Is this the governments way of not having to so rapidly replace retiring, 
and more costly, staff as the baby boomers bulge goes through to retirement. 
It may also encourage some to stay to improve their super payouts and thus 
avoid the predicted shortage of teachers in the next 5-10 years.

Call me cynical, but there are significant gains for the government if it 
can reduce school staffing by 5% overall (1 in 20 teachers) to the overall 
bottom line of education funding, especially if the replacement staff are 
younger, lower paid graduates.

I have not seen any promise to maintain staffing levels in the announcements 
to date.

Could this be the reason that the government has not revealed how much the 
agreement has cost the government?
And of Bronwyn Pike's confident announcement that "any additional wages will 
be offset by service improvements . . "

Let's wait and see the fine print and bottom line before rejoicing too much. 
It may be that some hard fought gains of the past may have been lost.

The government does not give in that easily, instance the deals with nurses 
and police!

Let's hope I am all wrong.

Geoff Moss
RMIT

----- Original Message ----- 
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> It is probably best to wait for the official AEU statement, as there have
> been many conflicting reports in the media.
>
>
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> Victorian teachers to be nation's best-paid
>
> Farrah Tomazin May 5, 2008 - 11:33AM
> <http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/05/05/1209839508834.html>
>
> The education union has hailed a deal that will make Victorian teachers
> the highest-paid in the country as the best deal for its members in more
> than 25 years.
>
> The agreement between the State Government and the Australian Education
> Union (AEU) resolves a 14-month industrial row, which included three
> statewide teachers' strikes and weeks of rolling half-day stoppages.
>
> The unions had threatened to walk off the job from May 13 to 15,
> disrupting during the first national literacy and numeracy tests. The
> resolution of the industrial dispute means those tests are now likely to
> go ahead without disruption.
>
> AEU Victorian branch president Mary Bluett said it was the best enterprise
> bargaining deal for teachers that she had seen in 25 years with the union.
>
> 11% rise for some
>
> However, there appears to be some contention over the increases announced
> by Premier John Brumby and Education Minister Bronwyn Pike this morning.
>
> The Government says the deal will equate to a 4.9% pay rise in the first
> year and 2.7% in the second and third years of the agreement.
>
> But the union believes some of biggest beneficiaries of the deal will get
> between 8% and 11%.
>
> "It's a complex arrangement, but the least any teacher is going to get out
> of this is somewhere between five and six per cent per annum,'' Ms Bluett
> said.
>
> "This is the best outcome in terms of salary and career structure in my
> history as a union official of 25 years standing,'' Ms Bluett said.
>
> Pupil-free days to stay
>
> A key sticking point in negotiations was the issue of pupil-free days,
> which the Government had originally wanted to abolish.
>
> Under the new deal, three pupil free training days will be brought to the
> start of the term and become professional training days and only one will
> be held mid-term, in a bid to minimise disruption to parents.
>
> It also includes an exits strategy to remove disengage teachers from
> classroom and find them new jobs.
>
> Secondary students will get an extra six days of tuition each year under
> the deal, Mr Brumby said, describing it as a win for students and 
> teachers.
>
> "A graduate teacher in Victoria currently earns $46,127 and under this
> agreement will become the highest-paid graduate teacher in the country
> earning $51,184, while an experienced classroom teacher will receive a
> $10,000 pay rise to $75,500."
>
> Mr Brumby said the pay deal was consistent with the Government's wages
> policy of a 3.25% rise every year, plus increases off-set by service
> improvement.
>
> State-by-state teacher salaries:
>
> Maximum for a classroom teacher
>
> Victoria - 2007: $65,414, 2008: $75,500
>
> NSW - 2007: $72,454, 2008: $75,352
>
> Queensland - 2007: $69,225, 2008: $71,994
>
> South Australia - 2007: $68,422, 2008: $68,422
>
> West Australia - 2007: $67,446, 2008: $71,206
>
> ACT - 2007: $71,767, 2008: $74,279
>
> Northern Territory: 2007: $70,047, 2008: $72,849
>
>
> Graduate Entry
>
> Victoria - 2007: $46,127, 2008: $51,184
>
> NSW - 2007: $49,050, 2008: $50,522
>
> Queensland - 2007: $46,950, 2008: $48,829
>
> South Australia - 2007: $49,605, 2008: $49,605
>
> West Australia - 2007: $44,618, 2008: $45,733
>
> ACT: 2007: $50,781, 2008: $50,781
>
> Northern Territory: $49,944, 2008: $49,944
>
> Source: Victorian Government
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>
> Cheers people
> Stephen Loosley
> Victoria, Australia
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