Tens of thousands of Victorian teachers and support staff out striking today – first strike in 13 years! ✊
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Tens of thousands of Victorian teachers and support staff out striking today – first strike in 13 years! ✊
Posted by toomuchtoomany
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Apparently they need 35% bump in pay just to match the NSW teachers. So yeah it is not hard to see why they want to strike.
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They deserve every cent of this. I know some of the kids these teachers have to deal with. Not to mention parents who think they can off load parenting to the teachers.
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Allan government is so incredibly out of touch, been disgraceful.
Power to the teachers!
They wonder why Victorian public schools suck ass…
Their conditions determine your child’s education 🙌🏻
The workers united, will never be defeated 💪🏽👊🏽
So glad they’re striking! They have all of my support!
Solidarity!
Love and support to all the teachers striking! Don’t give up, the community is behind you ✊
Hubs and many friends were out there today. Teachers in Vic are the lowest paid in Australia, and need a 35% pay bump to meet NSW’s salary ranges. The Vic government offered 18% plus some questionable conditions. The offer didn’t include support staff like aides, admin teams, maintenance teams (garden, IT, etc) because “we don’t have a shortage of them.”
There will be ongoing protests until an agreement is in place. Teachers will only prepare very bare-bones reports, meetings will be boycotted, any extracurricular activities will be cancelled. Does your child have lunchtime or after school clubs? Not anymore.
Support teachers in their strike to raise the quality of education as a whole in the future.
The Education State pays the least and pitches a terrible offer in terms of conditions too.
Pay the poor bastards for dealing with all the bradyn and Jaydens
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The government don’t want education standards and critical thinking ability to rise in future generations.
How about we stop funding private schools and invest more in public school and our teachers. We need quality teachers not olympic size swimming pools.
People saying they don’t deserve it go teach in a public school for half a year and see what it’s like. The amount of crap teachers put up with is disgusting
Good on them. The least they are doing is setting an example on collective bargaining and strike action. Hope my fellow retail workers are watching because many of them fell for the gift card bribe and we ended up with a miserable just over minimum wage rise.
Although my cupboards are empty due to my kids being at home asking for food every 10 minutes, I support it.
I’m a teacher. I am paid a pretty woeful salary for the work. I have often considered whether I can, in fact, afford to be a teacher.
horrific effort on the Vic government’s part. good luck to the teachers striking ✊
Some 14 years ago we had the Gonski Review into school funding. The review gave guidelines for the *minimum* funding required for each school to meet its needs.
Ever since, that **minimum** funding level has been treated as a kind of aspirational target, which gets delayed and pushed back over and over. So the result is that public schools have been chronically underfunded in an official sense, for a very long time. And it shows. The buildings and equipment are in a state of disrepair, and the teacher workloads are maxed out to reduce the number of wages that need to be paid. It is producing a falling standing of results, and it is not sustainable in any case. So yeah, the strike makes sense.
Considering the amount of crap teachers have to put up with today, like basically acting in the role of parent, combating mobile phone use etc, they deserve the raise they are asking for.
Make the bastards pay 💪
Sending my support to all my teacher friends! You guys deserve it!
pissy ass government; will fund shitty corrupt building projects but not the people who are teaching the future generation
State government has a short term memory problem – they seem to have forgotten how important teachers (and nurses) were when COVID hit. Any wonder there is a teacher shortage.
Solidarity for the teachers out there ✊
Solidarity and best of wishes to all the teachers striking 👊
Is there anything the rest of us can do to help?
Whats an average teacher on in Vic these days and what pay are they after?
My kids school sent the message that not all the teachers will be on strike and they will provide an alternative lesson plan for the classes affected so ours could have gone (i.e spread the kids around other class rooms) a bunch of the parents that were able to, just kept our kids home and marked the absence as “support of the strike”.
I happened to wear a red shirt today to work, was so confused why I was seeing so many people on my commute with a red shirt, guess that explains it