Welcome to 2025 and your first issue of Newsmonth for the year. This edition is digital only and can be accessed through the links below.
We begin this year with a big win for teachers and professional and operational staff in AIS independent schools, who secured substantial pay rises and better conditions following a hard-fought campaign during 2024.
We update you on negotiations for a new three-year enterprise agreement for members in Catholic systemic schools.
Are you being paid correctly? We urge members in independent schools and Catholic systemic schools to check your pay slip against the new rates in the links below.
For members in NSW Christian schools, after months of uncertainty and a paltry pay offer, your employer, Christian Schools Australia (CSA), has returned to the bargaining table.
Don’t miss the latest in our pay rise campaign for teachers in community preschools.
If you haven’t yet renewed your annual membership, we’re offering one month free until Friday 28 February. To take up this offer, call us on 8202 8900 and ask for the Membership Team.
Once again, we asked you to share your top tips for new teachers, and you responded with helpful advice. And of course, our most popular tip: Join your union.
Read these stories and more in this issue of Newsmonth. Please share this email with your colleagues and invite them to join the IEU. We are always stronger together.
Carol Matthews
IEUA NSW/ACT Branch Secretary
- Independent Schools: New agreements ready at last
- Catholic systemic schools: Towards a new enterprise agreement
- NSW Christian schools: Bargaining resumes
- Unite for change: Preschools supported bargaining update
- Shared wisdom: Top tips for new teachers
- Check your pay: Catholic systemic teachers and support staff
- Check your pay: AIS Independent school teachers
- Check your pay: AIS Independent school professional and operational staff