Queensland teachers strike for first time in 16 years<\/a><\/p>\nToday’s strike action was expected to affect more than half a million students at about 1,200 state schools.<\/p>\n
“We have six weeks before the end of the school year \u2026 so it will be in that time.<\/p>\n
“Rallies will be held after school so exams will go ahead as normal. We know that it’s a really tense time for kids.<\/p>\n
“The government has chosen this, this is the premier’s path at this point in time. The premier can intervene at any time.”<\/p>\n
The move follows a stern letter from Education Director-General Sharon Schimming, who warned strikes during senior exams would “bring the profession into disrepute”.<\/p>\n
Members voted against a proposed pay rise that would see teachers earn more than $100,000 a year by the end of 2028.<\/p>\n
A majority \u2014 67 per cent \u2014 of the union’s 50,000 members voted down the state government offer end of October.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It included a three-year 8 per cent pay rise and meant every state school teacher would earn more than $100,000 a year by the end of 2028.<\/p>\n
It also promised a new safety taskforce to deal with violence in classrooms.<\/p>\n
But the union stopped short of recommending the deal, opening the vote to its members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queensland Teachers’ Union says it will press ahead with strike action over a long-running pay dispute with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25908,64,63,651,29916,23812,38283,44,23918,4113,94,701,29914,28210,28208,7893],"class_list":["post-268565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-action","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brisbane","tag-cresta-richardson","tag-date","tag-dispute","tag-news","tag-pay","tag-premier-david-crisafulli","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-queensland-teachers-union","tag-strike","tag-teachers","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}