Author: Zoe Hercus

IEU reps from schools affiliated with The Anglican Schools Corporation joined us for reps training. They discussed ways of building strong chapters to increase bargaining…

The union is pushing for better pay and conditions for members employed by Aspect, who continue to raise serious work health and safety concerns. Aspect…

The IEU supports plans to improve initial teacher education and invest more in professional development in a bid to address unruly behaviour in classrooms. The…

Australia does not suffer from a lack of truth-telling about the devastating impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. From 19th-century newspaper…

Members in Catholic Independent Model A schools have won strong gains in pay and conditions in union-negotiated multi-enterprise agreements (MEAs). The new MEAs were overwhelmingly…

The Fair Work Commission (FWC) handed down its annual wage review decision on 2 June, increasing minimum award pay rates by 4.75% from 1 July….

Workplace flexibility must keep pace with an ageing population and growing caring responsibilities Teachers and school staff caring for ageing parents need stronger workplace flexibility,…

Pressure is mounting on the NSW Government to fund fair pay in community preschools. This May, hundreds of community preschool members took to the streets…

Hundreds of IEU members rallied across the state to demand the NSW government provide funding for fair pay in its June budget.  Sydney’s Martin Place became a sea of…

Motion of Solidarity with AEU ACT Industrial Action The Executive of the Independent Education Union of Australia NSW/ACT Branch notes that members of the Australian Education Union have…