Tasmanian Catholic IEU members have conducted strongly attended activities on the student-free final day of Term 2 to demonstrate their frustration with their employer for failing to finalise an Agreement.

From 18-22 March, IEU staff visited Catholic schools all over the state to help members fight for a long overdue Agreement.

Overworked, frustrated Catholic educators in Tasmania are upping the ante in their campaign for a reasonable deal, two years since the expiry of their last IEU-negotiated Agreement.

IEU members in Tasmanian Catholic schools have been waiting too long for a new Agreement – and now their whole state knows about it!

IEU members in Tasmanian Catholic schools are fed up with the pace of bargaining on a new Agreement for their sector, which has now dragged on for 18 months.

Negotiations between the IEU and Tasmanian Catholic school employers continued at a full day meeting in Hobart in mid-July, but the parties are still some way off reaching agreement on several key issues.

Negotiations on a new Agreement covering staff in Tasmanian Catholic schools has recommenced, with a meeting held on 12 May between the IEU and employer representatives.

The behaviour of the Tasmanian Catholic Education Office (TCEO) – which still refuses to properly bargain on a new Agreement – is descending into farce.