Catholic school teachers demand 37 per cent pay rise
Hundreds of Victorian Catholic School principals are open to church training officials about the approach of meeting with 30,000 teachers of the sector.
The order of payment between teachers in the 493 Catholic school and employers of the state will concentrate in the coming weeks when the main workplace union, the Independent Education Union (IEU), has requested a payment of 37 percent for three years.
Elizabeth Labone, the boss of Victoria Catholic Education Authority, said the union’s insistence on the union’s only interest bargaining delayed the increase in wage for members.Credit: Flavio Brancaleone
Teachers who say that they are paid less than 13 percent of their colleagues inter -state colleagues also require a 5000 -dollar session bonus for each educator, regular holding bonuses of 5 percent of their wages and 17 percent pension contribution.
The end of the existing workplace agreements ends, but the two sides cannot agree with the employers’ umbrella group Victoria Catholic Education Authority (VCEA) even on the basis of negotiations, which insists on 34 different churches in the state market with 34 different churches that operate schools separately with individual labor force.
Teachers want a negotiation process throughout a single sector that gives them the right to strike, but the authority says that the search for “one -interest bargaining ın of the union prevents wage negotiations.
If no decision can be reached, the Union says that the Employers will ask employers to impose a sector -wide bargaining model, which will determine the scene for school strikes in 2026 if a fee agreement is not made.
A group of union members representing 200 principals targeted the authority this week and accused this of discrepancy, stubbornness and teaching labor force.
The Union’s Council of Director said in a statement that the position of the authority in the past bargaining tours rejected the basic industrial and democratic rights to Catholic teachers.
