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Issue No. 190 | 08 August 2003 |
Border Protection
Interview: The New Deal Unions: In the Line of Hire Culture: Too Cool for the Collective? International: The Domino Effect Industrial: A Spanner in the Works National Focus: Gathering of the Tribes History: The Welcome Nazi Tourist Bad Boss: Domm, Domm Turn Around Poetry: Just Move On. Review: Reality Bites
Legal Missile Holes Ships of Shame Labour Rights Threaten Trade Deal Workers Sharpen Community Clause FiFo, FiFo � Out the Gate We Go Water Crisis a Mist for Sell-Off Westfield Workers Seek Clean Start Rubber Workers Stretch Bridgestone
The Soapbox Education The Locker Room Postcard
Casual TAFE Wage Rise The Fifth Column
Labor Council of NSW |
Letters to the Editor Casual TAFE
Add to the list of the casualised workers referred to in Jim Marr's story the 15,400 NSW TAFE Part Time Casual Teachers (PTCs) who outnumber their permanent counterparts 3:1. More than half of us are women. For teaching the same hours as our permanently employed colleagues, we receive just over half the wage and are flagrantly exploited and intimidated. We are unemployed for 16 weeeks of each year. No holiday leave, no parental leave, no carer's leave, no compassionate leave and token minimal sick leave only, for working a specified number of hours per year. We are the only teachers in the public education system in NSW who do not receive pro rata pay and conditions. Our case for pro rata pay begins in NSW IRC on 1 September and the NSW Labor Government is going to fight the claim tooth and nail - "no money" and the "economic impact on the state" is the "justification" for attempting to unashamedly maintain TAFE PTCs as the Department's working poor. (Two teachers for the price of one is an admirable fiscal achievement and one worth hanging on to!) In consideration of the $800 million windfall from Stamp Duty, an increase in gambling taxes, $450 million per year for the School Student Transport Subsidy, which in a large number of cases sees students transported past public schools to private schools, plus the budget suplus, it is obvious the Carr government's priorities do not include equity of employment conditions. Bob Carr, the Education Premier who values teachers? Add the word "under" to "values"! Diane Sykes
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