{"id":800435,"date":"2026-07-14T20:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800435\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T20:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:43:15","slug":"victorian-teachers-set-to-strike-again-following-deadlocked-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800435\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian teachers set to strike again following deadlocked negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victorian public school teachers will hold another 24-hour statewide strike next week amid an ongoing dispute with the state government over pay and conditions.<\/p>\n

Australian Education Union (AEU) Victorian Branch members have resolved to take further industrial action next Thursday, July 23, including stop-work action and a ban on unpaid overtime.<\/p>\n

AEU Victorian branch president Justin Mullaly says the industrial action is necessary because Victorian public schools remain the lowest funded in the country.<\/p>\n

“The Allan Labor government is purposefully denying at least $2.4 billion in funding for Victorian public schools,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Justin Mullaly says teachers, principals, and education support staff are working an average of 12 hours of unpaid overtime every week. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

“In this underfunded system, teachers, principals, and education support staff are working an average of 12 hours unpaid overtime every week.<\/p>\n

“The government must stop relying on the goodwill of school employees as a core part of their funding model for schools.<\/p>\n

“Just three in 10 employees expect to remain working in public schools until retirement, and report that excessive workloads are one of the reasons why they will leave.”<\/p>\n

In June, Victorian teachers went against AEU advice<\/a> and voted down a pay rise of up to 32 per cent.<\/p>\n

After a hard-fought campaign that included the first 24-hour Victorian teacher strike in more than a decade, the AEU announced in May it had reached an in-principle agreement with the state government.<\/p>\n

The agreement would have granted public school educators pay rises of between 28 and 32 per cent over four years, and more student-free days.<\/p>\n

A Victorian government spokesman urged the AEU to return to negotiations to prevent statewide disruptions to families.<\/p>\n

“This deal, which was endorsed by the AEU leadership, would have made Victorian teachers the best paid in the country together with the best conditions,” the government spokesman said.<\/p>\n

“We will always back our hardworking teachers, school leaders and education support staff.<\/p>\n

“We call on the Australian Education Union to end its planned industrial action that will disrupt families across Victoria and continue negotiating in good faith.”<\/p>\n

In March, teachers and supporters took statewide strike action<\/a>, marching to parliament in central Melbourne, with police estimating 35,000 people were in attendance.<\/p>\n

The March strike was the first of its kind since AEU members took statewide industrial action in 2013 when negotiations with the Baillieu Coalition government broke down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victorian public school teachers will hold another 24-hour statewide strike next week amid an ongoing dispute with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,28808,20705,84868,44,23918,4211,48995,28210,28208,26693],"class_list":["post-800435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-education-union","tag-conditions","tag-industrial-action","tag-news","tag-pay","tag-schools","tag-state-government","tag-strike","tag-teachers","tag-victorian-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800435","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=800435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}