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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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May 15 2026

Time capsule: 1986

As 1986 began, the NSW Independent Teachers Association (ITA), as our union was then known, had 12,103 members – and 2035 more joined throughout the…

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The IEU welcomes the NSW government’s proposal to empower school principals to ban parents if they threaten or abuse students, staff or other community members….

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Three new enterprise agreements (EAs) negotiated by the union came into force in February, with better pay and conditions for Catholic school leaders in NSW…

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