Xavier College: bargaining for a better future

The Independent Education Union is currently bargaining for a new Enterprise Agreement at Xavier College. This is your chance to negotiate for better wages and conditions.


Non members can and should join the IEU to collectively give staff at Xavier College a stronger position at the bargaining table.

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VOTE NO!

On management's proposed non-union Agreement, which fails to address the critical issues faced by staff at Xavier College.

IEU member speaks on why you should VOTE NO!

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The right to genuine consultation


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Fair pay to address
cost-of-living pressures


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Sustainable workloads
and work-life balance


Staff at Xavier College are fighting for:

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  • Significant improvements to the payment for all overtime worked by General staff.

  • Proper recognition and correct payment for teachers’ contributions to the school’s Co-Curricular Programs.

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  • Greater flexibility to enable work to be performed from home.

  • Consultation prior to changes to lesson lengths which lead to teachers managing more overall lessons.

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  • Meaningful interventions into workload and work intensification are needed to ease workload pressures caused by new employer initiatives, government regulation and parental expectations.

  • Fix the broken Co-Curricular freebie!

Additional resources

From IEU quarterly publication The Point: Term 2, 2023

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