A primary teacher, with more than ten years’ experience, said: “I’m voting ‘no’ for a number of reasons. Partly pay, partly workload and partly lack of union fight.”
Within minutes of the announcement of the ballot result on Wednesday, teachers took to social media to express their shock at the outcome and disgust at the role of the union leadership in pushing the agreement through.
The agreement, billed by the Labor government and the Australian Education Union as the “last offer,” includes a real wage cut and nothing to improve dire workloads.