Issue No 107 | 17 August 2001 | |
Letters to the EditorThe Plight of Casual Teachers
I wonder if in Australia, the casual teachers have thought that they should be represented by the Teachers� Federation at the same status the permanent and full time teachers enjoy. Is it possible that further to day by day be hoping to be called by some principal, to be often abused by the students and exploited by other colleagues (some time entitled just with the same denigrated status: casual teachers ) the Federation does not offer to them the importance that the most socially disadvantaged teachers require? I came from Chile after have been sacked from the public system ruled at that time on military fascist legislative guidelines, but even in that condition, there was a special department in the Democratic Teacher Federation to help the teacher rejected by the system. Here the teacher marginalised by government representatives whatever the reasons, has now furthermore to suffer abuse and discrimination of her/his own peers in the workforce, to experience the indiffer! ence from the professional body representatives. Which are the differences between the social conditions and the workplace ethical atmosphere that teachers of the so-called by some arrogant politician "bananas and bastardised republics" face in comparison with the so-called industrialised republics� workers in this time? According to my own experience almost nil! If other casual teachers are facing similar experience and would like to stick together, please contact me. Berta Valdivia Casual Spanish Teacher
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