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Issue No. 309 | 02 June 2006 |
When the Truth Hurts
Interview: Rock Solid Industrial: Eight Simple Rules for Employing My Teenage Daughter Politics: The Johnnie Code Energy: Fission Fantasies History: All The Way With Clarrie O'Shea International: Closer to Home Economics: Taking the Fizz Unions: Stronger Together Review: Montezuma's Revenge Poetry: Fair Go Gone
You're Killing Us - BHP Charged Again Revealed: Beaconsfield Led AWA Charge Independent Schools Push Class Warfare Sutton Wants Middle Men Probed ATO Recruiting for WorkChoices
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News Independent Schools Push Class Warfare
Just days after Sydney's Newington College backed down from plans to have staff re-apply for their jobs, the peak body admitted it has been doling out advice on how schools could enforce non-union workplace agreements. Workers Online understands non-union agreements will be given to teachers in some schools as early as July. Independent Education Union General Secretary Dick Shearman said the union was concerned the WorkChoices-inspired agreements would be determined solely by committees of employers and teachers would have no opportunity to seek union advice. "This is a big mistake...This will create a situation where every independent school will have to identify themselves as (whether or not they are) a WorkChoices school," Shearman said. The IEU will go to the Industrial Relations Commission to flesh out the intentions of independent schools. Meanwhile, the Principal of Newington College, David Scott, has been given a lesson in collective action, with the IEU forcing him to back down over plans to cut teachers' conditions. Scott had asked 40 senior staff at the exclusive school to reapply for positions that stripped pay and increased workloads. He said the school's plans had nothing to do with WorkChoices, rather they were about increasing efficiency.
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