IEU Victoria Tasmania summer office hours
When the office is open, how to win prizes just for updating your membership details and details of savings, deals and offers. Happy holidays!
From The Point: The 8 things every worker needs to know
Here’s a few things that every employee can do to help us have more wins – or better yet, help avoid the conflicts in the first place.
Congratulations graduates and thanks staff
The IEU congratulates the students who are finishing their secondary school journey, and thanks the staff and families who helped guide them.
Summer reading suggestions
Good books, and a couple of ratbag books, to consider for your summer holiday reading.
Academics say long working hours to blame for gender pay gap shock
The gender pay gap has widened for the first time since 2013, and university researchers have identified long working hours as the main culprit.
From The Point: advice for school job season
Education staff juggle some of the longest resignation notice periods of any industry and face a long, nervous wait to see if they’ve got the job.
Education and union reading
Latest reads, including news and views on the new IR bill, personalised teaching, and the pre-Christmas education summit.
Victorian Catholic bargaining impasse continues
The IEU has been negotiating with Victorian Catholic employers for over two years on a new Agreement, despite such deals being finalised long ago with Sale Diocese Catholic schools and in the state government sector.
The teacher shortage crisis: recruitment or retention?
There is an ongoing debate around what is causing the teacher shortage crisis and what we should be doing about it. Teacher and IEU member Jack Andrews says it’s time to move past band aid solutions.
Tune out, turn off, lean in: Go Home on Time Day
Unpaid overtime is a scourge which costs the average employee $460 per fortnight.
Victorian State Election - Party Promises!
Parties competing for your vote in the Victorian election answer IEU questions!
ACTU President lauds education staff at IEU Conference
O'Neil said the IEU's multi-employer bargaining impasse with Victorian Catholic employers shows how the current industrial relations system fails workers.
Why IEU members - and all Australians - need industrial relations reform
The current deadlock in bargaining for a new Victorian Catholic Agreement is the perfect case study of what is WRONG with current industrial laws.
Unions support Secure Work, Better Pay Bill
The proposed Secure Work, Better Pay Bill offers Australian employees the first hope at restoring some of their bargaining power in the lopsided industrial landscape.
Work-related gendered violence is an OHS issue
The concept of workplace safety has evolved - it’s now about more than just physical ailments.
What should a staff member do if they are a victim of violence or witness a violent incident?
How to deal with a violent incident during and after the event.
Violence against staff in schools: it’s never OK
It’s time for violence in schools to be recognised as an Occupational health and Safety issue.
Overdue backpay explained (sort of…)
Members in Victorian Catholic schools are about to receive some very long overdue backpay.
Veteran teacher shares his concerns for Catholic education
A 41-year education veteran lays out his fears for the teaching profession and offers his support for the campaign for workload improvements.