Year in review, 2025: Independent schools
Staff are more willing to act, employers are feeling pressure to offer competitive salaries, and the IEU is advancing new standards for professional recognition and workload protection.
Friends’ School rejects events with weapons links
The Friends’ School has acted according to its principles by withdrawing from two events that list weapons manufacturers as major sponsors.
Bargaining wins set the new industry standard in independent schools
With every win, IEU members raise standards that can’t be ignored. Independent educators are keeping pace with, and in some cases exceeding, gains made in the government and Catholic sectors.
2025 IEU independent school bargaining round up
More members across more schools are empowered, skilled up, and ready to fight for decent deals, leading to a glut of strong outcomes.
How a Memorandum of Understanding helps bridge the gaps in bargaining
This device is often used while the state and Catholic school sectors are bargaining, as independent schools wait to see the pay and conditions benchmarks those negotiations set.
Independent bargaining: More employees say ‘No’ to get fair outcomes
Employees in Victorian and Tasmanian independent schools are increasingly willing to take action in support of better pay and conditions, and reject unfair non-union Agreements.
IEU President Terry Huddy on how to help your Rep during a bargaining campaign
Enterprise Bargaining campaigns can be a crucial turning point for independent school staff. These campaigns only succeed when members are engaged, informed, and united.
IEU Independent school bargaining report: members stand firm
A series of landmark outcomes are setting new benchmarks for pay and conditions in the independent sector.
Involvement, belief and loving the school: How Strathcona staff won out
Rep Ella Robinson explains the key elements of a successful campaign which sets a benchmark for what can be achieved when committed members hold firm.
Strathcona staff act to achieve a great deal
Teachers and teaching assistants at Strathcona Girls Grammar School have taken protected industrial action to achieve more sustainable workloads in a new Enterprise Agreement.
Launceston Christian School Enterprise Agreement approved
This approval represents a significant achievement for IEU members at the school, all of whom recently endorsed the Agreement.
IEU members at Strathcona staff act on workloads
Teachers and teaching assistants at Strathcona Girls Grammar School have taken protected industrial action to achieve more sustainable workloads in a new enterprise agreement.
IEU win: Deal endorsed at Eastside Lutheran College
The IEU has endorsed a new Agreement at Eastside Lutheran College (ELC) in Tasmania, securing salary increases and key improvements to working conditions.
IEU says competitive salaries are a must for independent schools
As Victorian independent schools negotiate new workplace Agreements in 2025, securing nationally competitive salaries is a top priority.
IEU independent bargaining report, Term 1, 2025
The IEU is finalising deals in schools of all kinds, setting new benchmarks on pay and workload provisions.
Big win for Launceston Christian School Education Support Staff
The Enterprise Bargaining Agreement at Launceston Christian School covering Education Support Staff Enterprise Agreement has been endorsed by 100% of voting employees!
IEU member’s win: Mt Hira heroics
The IEU thanks Rep Rebecca Sim and her campaigning crew who negotiated so passionately and professionally to achieve their school’s first-ever Agreement.
Important IEU wins on workload and training at St John’s College Preston
IEU members at St John’s College have secured the right for teachers to leave school grounds when they have no scheduled class duties — an important step in addressing workload concerns.
Kardinia International College win big with new Enterprise Agreement
The IEU and its members at Kardinia International College have finally reached in-principle Agreement after a determined campaign that saw staff Vote No earlier in the year to a proposed Agreement that failed to include key demands of staff.
Independent bargaining report: Bargaining wins, big and small
This is a “new era of independent school bargaining”, because more teachers and education support staff in independent schools are challenging outdated practices and demanding fairer working conditions.