IEU Victorian Catholic Campaign: Term of Action
Your guide to SIA, Bargaining, and member actions at a glance.
Watch now: Victorian Catholic bargaining update
Watch now: IEU General Secretary David Brear provides a bargaining and campaign update for members working in Victorian Catholic education.
Victorian Catholic bargaining: Ramping up the pressure in Term 2
It’s critical that IEU members in Victorian Catholic schools step up their actions to put pressure on for fair bargaining rights and a deal that delivers significant pay rises and addresses staff workloads and wellbeing.
Training builds strength across the IEU
Nothing is more important for building bargaining strength than bringing key unionists together to learn and share knowledge. As an education union, this is central to the work.
An IEU Rep fighting for basic rights
Colette Deschamps says she wasn’t surprised by her colleagues’ support for the IEU’s Single Interest Authorisation campaign, because they felt their rights were being denied.
IEU Rep Karen Murphy on fairness, safety and respect
The SIA campaign motivated Karen Murphy to take on the role as Rep again, even as she approached retirement.
IEU Rep profile: Brianna Buza, Columba Catholic School Bunyip
Brianna, an Education Support staff member and Rep at this growing primary school in Gippsland, values the union’s people-centred approach to its work.
Safety, fairness, and building a team: IEU Reps on organising a large school
It seems almost destined that Holly Blake and Vanessa Tavoletti would take on leadership roles at John Paul College Frankston.
Statewide solidarity from regional IEU Catholic school Reps
Victorian Catholic schools in all regions turned out in force for SIA training in late February. Alongside the major gathering at Trades Hall in Carlton, training days were held in Ballarat, Bendigo, Morwell and Wangaratta, building momentum all across Victoria.
Victorian Catholic bargaining update: Same old story – delays
Victorian Catholic employers insist that “cooperative” bargaining works. IEU members, frustrated by every negotiation cycle in recent memory, know otherwise.
Deputy Prime Minister hears IEU concerns over Catholic sector bargaining
Thanks to the work of members, the IEU secured an opportunity to speak with Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles about bargaining issues in Victorian Catholic schools.
120 examples of IEU solidarity
IEU members have shown their determination to fight for full industrial rights with an extraordinary show of support for striking state school colleagues on Tuesday 24 March.
Victorian Catholic school IEU Reps unite
A major IEU Rep training event held at the iconic Trades Hall reaffirmed the union’s commitment to fair bargaining in the pivotal Victorian Catholic campaign.
‘We’d strike if we could’: IEU members support AEU industrial action
Over 30,000 public school union members have stopped work for the first time in 13 years, their immense turnout in the streets of Melbourne reminding IEU members in Catholic schools of the fundamental rights being denied to them.
2012/2013: IEU members defy new hardline Catholic approach
The Victorian Liberal Government, led by Ted Baillieu, came to power in 2010 promising to make Victorian teachers the highest paid in the country. By 2012, that promise had been replaced by a ‘performance pay’ model, in which only a small group would reach nationally competitive rates, leaving most education workers behind.
Support the AEU Strike on 24 March!
We are calling on all sub-branches to find a way to express clear and visible support for the actions of AEU members.
IEU members look on as AEU colleagues vote on statewide strike
AEU members are currently voting on whether to take industrial action - an experience currently denied to IEU members in Victorian Catholic schools.
Victorian Catholic campaign update from General Secretary David Brear
As they continue to oppose the campaign for fair bargaining rights in Victorian Catholic education, employers have performed a numerical backflip worthy of a Winter Olympics ski jumper by suggesting that their workforce has inflated from under 35,000 to 45,000!
Victorian Catholic employers’ staff numbers ploy doesn’t add up
As they continue to oppose the campaign for fair bargaining rights in Victorian Catholic education, employers are now suggesting that their workforce has inflated from under 35,000 to 45,000.
Victorian public school staff move toward industrial action IEU members are denied
The Victorian Branch of the Australian Education Union (AEU) has applied to the Fair Work Commission to conduct a ballot of members to endorse protected industrial action, including stopping work.