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Details are still sketchy but news is spreading around the teacher gossip network like bird flu. It seems that teachers — who have been locked in negotiations with a government that didn’t really want to negotiate for 18 months — have successfully told education minister Bronwyn Pike to stick her sub-inflation offer of 3.5% per year and instead grant Victorian teachers (the worst paid in the country) pay parity with their NSW colleagues. With virtually no productivity trade-offs teachers have been offered payrises of between $5000 and $10,000 with a John Howard-style $1000 once off bribe payment thrown in for good measure. Again, I’m not sure of the exact details but will update this post when they are officially released.
UPDATE: From ABC Online
The Premier John Brumby says the salary of a graduate teacher will rise by about $5,000 and senior teachers will get a $10,000 pay rise.
“We’ll make the classroom teachers the highest paid anywhere in Australia,” he said.
Mr Brumby, says they gave the teachers more than the original offer of 3.25 per cent because the union has agreed to boost productivity by spending more time with students.
“They will get an extra 10 minutes of tuition everyday.”
The Education Union’s Mary Bluett says top teachers will get a 15 per cent pay rise and graduate teachers 9.5 per cent over three years.
“The salary will actually reflect the importance of the job of teaching,” she said.
“That would do a lot to retain the teachers that we have here in the state.”
Under the deal, three of the four pupil-free days will be moved to before the start of the school year and teachers will get a one-off $1,000 cash bonus.
UPDATE II: Check out the ABC’s apostrophe problems.
I blame teachers.
Monday 5 May 2008, 11:35 am #Wah
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/teachers-big-pay-win/2008/05/05/1209839508834.html
Include his Social Justice package and Brumby might win a few fans. Now to fix the trains.
Monday 5 May 2008, 11:36 am #Wah
Oh yeah, drinks on you Ed when you get your pay rise,
Monday 5 May 2008, 11:43 am #Chuck A. Spear
About bloody time.
Monday 5 May 2008, 12:00 pm #The Editor
That $1000 is going straight through the pokies, Wah.
Monday 5 May 2008, 12:07 pm #Chuck A. Spear
Speaking of the $1000, I’m starting a ground-floor-up business opportunity and I’m looking for cashed-up, young professionals like yourself, Ed.
How are you doing for washing-up liquid?
Monday 5 May 2008, 12:21 pm #cosmicjester
great, more money for the pinkos to shove marxist and chairman mao ideologies down our kids throats
i prefered it when good education consisted of a flagpole (labor members banned from ceremonies of course) the national song every morning and teaching muslims about simpson and his donkey
Monday 5 May 2008, 1:33 pm #krypto
congratulations moneybags, now all the Albury teachers will be pissing off to Wodonga I guess.
Monday 5 May 2008, 1:51 pm #Jack Dorf
news is spreading around the teacher gossip network like bird flu.
Wouldn’t herpes be a better metaphor?
Monday 5 May 2008, 1:57 pm #Wah
I’m not sure if there’s meant to be an apostrophe. If anything there shouldn’t be an S.
Monday 5 May 2008, 2:11 pm #The Editor
I say teachers’.
But what would I know? I’m just a teacher.
Monday 5 May 2008, 2:15 pm #Bron
I say teachers’ too.
But what would I know? I’m not a teacher.
Monday 5 May 2008, 2:16 pm #The Editor
Tick, very good, Bron. Ten out of ten. Elephant stamp.
Monday 5 May 2008, 2:45 pm #JR
“But what would I know? I’m just a teacher.”
Shouldn’t that be, “But what would I know? I’m just a overpaid teacher.”?
Monday 5 May 2008, 2:45 pm #Wah
Vic teacher-pay dispute resolved
Monday 5 May 2008, 2:53 pm #keri
JR, it would actually be “But what would I know? I’m just AN overpaid teacher”
Monday 5 May 2008, 3:17 pm #albi
Great, more of my taxes being used to reward the fucking traitors who indoctrinate children with maoistenvironfemopinkopoofoislamification.
Monday 5 May 2008, 3:33 pm #Bron
Stop showing off your knowledge of big words, Albi.
Monday 5 May 2008, 3:38 pm #Wah
Is it true the teachers got the pay rise because I bunch of humanities teachers threatened to take their shirts off in front of Flinders Street Station?
Monday 5 May 2008, 4:01 pm #The Editor
He he. My kids actually made the same joke this morning, Wah.
Monday 5 May 2008, 4:17 pm #Returned Man
There’s no need for an apostrophe.
Monday 5 May 2008, 4:42 pm #Bridgit Gread
It’s great news. Finally the Victorian government can attract good quality professionals into teaching and cast lose some of the dead wood that’s been clogging up for the system for a while.
*Looks up*
Monday 5 May 2008, 4:45 pm #The Editor
What, my kids?
Monday 5 May 2008, 4:49 pm #Bridgit Gread
“They will get an extra 10 minutes of tuition everyday.”
It’s money for old rope, Ed, just come to class ten minutes later.
Monday 5 May 2008, 7:10 pm #Jeremy
I’m surprised we haven’t been subjected to an animated gif of fireworks.
Monday 5 May 2008, 7:25 pm #The Editor
“There’s no need for an apostrophe.”
Welcome back, Returned Man, but I beg to differ. The pay dispute belongs to the Vic teachers and therefore a possessive apostrophe is required. Since “teachers” is a plural the apostrophe goes after the ’s’.
Monday 5 May 2008, 7:39 pm #magic bellybutton
Now you’re just showing off.
Fucking teachers.
Monday 5 May 2008, 8:11 pm #Jeremy
But Editor, it’s also just a description. ie the pay dispute that involves Victorian teachers. In the same way as you’d say “ALP conference dispute” instead of “ALP conference’s dispute”. Just because it uses a plural “s” doesn’t mean it has to suddenly be a possessive “s” as well.
Monday 5 May 2008, 8:36 pm #Bridgit Gread
Returned Man and Jeremy are actually correct, making The Editor redundant as a teacher and therefore unworthy of a pay rise. So ‘gnerr’.
Monday 5 May 2008, 8:48 pm #Chuck A. Spear
Why the fuck is everyone trying to rain on Ed’s parade? No wonder it’s taken years for teachers to get a decent pay rise when they are surrounded by a bunch of curmudgeons.
Monday 5 May 2008, 9:01 pm #Bridgit Gread
Only because we know he won’t share the wealth. A generous Grods CEO would shout the bar with Scotch, Fleshlights and finger food.
Monday 5 May 2008, 9:38 pm #The Editor
There are two possible interpretations and depending on which one you embrace I’m either right or wrong.
And you’re entitled to your interpretation but mine is right.
Monday 5 May 2008, 9:52 pm #Wah
Just in case you fuckin’ missed it - needs a hyhen, not an apostrophy
Vic teacher-pay dispute resolved
Monday 5 May 2008, 9:52 pm #Wah
hyhen is like a hyphen, exactly like a hyphen
Monday 5 May 2008, 10:52 pm #Jeremy
If both versions are equally correct, why’d you MS-paint critique the original?
Monday 5 May 2008, 11:36 pm #Bron
Because he’s RIGHT, Jeremy. He said so himself.
Tuesday 6 May 2008, 7:41 am #The Editor
Wah, I think it could use a hyphen but, like the apostrophe, it’s not the only way to write the headline.
Jesus, Jeremy, can’t you spot a backdown when you see one?
Tuesday 6 May 2008, 9:44 am #Steve
Strange that a comment thread about the best teachers’ pay deal in recent history should devolve into quibbling about hyphens and apostrophes.
Actually perhaps it’s not strange.
Tuesday 6 May 2008, 9:45 am #The Editor
Yeah, we all need to get out a bit more.
FLESHLIGHT!
Tuesday 6 May 2008, 5:03 pm #John Surname
Ed has already marked out his first purchase.