Joint Meeting VIEU Councils

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• Joint Meeting VIEU Councils
• 16 May 2008

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2007 Survey - Priority Issues

• For teachers and deputy principals
• Protection of existing conditions
• Wages
• Protection of school holidays
• Class sizes
• Class time
• Security for fixed term employment
• Genuine career paths
• Protection of existing conditions

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Priority issues continued

• For Principals
• Salary equity with VGS
• Appropriate relativities
• Strengthening contract provisions notice and
  contract renewal
• For SOs and SSOs
• Protection of existing conditions
• Wages
• Improvements to the classification structure

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Government Sector OutcomeSource AEU Bulletin

• Top of the teacher scale 75,500
• Highest top rate in the country
• Graduate teachers at 51,571
• Highest entry point in the country
• 1000,1500 and 2000 bonuses for most teachers
  and principals.
• Pay increases between 5.2 and 11.5 per year
• Effective date 11 May pending ratification by
  AEU
• No loss of holidays, no loss of pupil free days
• No increase in scheduled class time limits.

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Parity

• Since 1997 we have had the same increases from
  the same date as our government sector colleagues
  on the scale.
• The operative date is as important as the
  quantum.
• No matter how long this agreement takes to reach,
  we expect the operative date to be the same.

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Headcount of Teachers at each level

• 1-1 647
• 1-2 693
• 1-3 660
• 1-4 631
• 1-5 693
• 1-6 719
• 1-7 794
• 1-8 601

• 1-9 601
• 1-10 581
• 1-11 376
• 1-12 2008
• 2-1 213
• 2-2 4934
• Total 14572

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Challenges in negotiations

• School Officers and Schools Services Officers
• Positions of Leadership
• Principals Salaries
• Deputy Principal rates and allowances
• CEO staff

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Challenges SOs and SSOs

• Percentage increases on scale
• Real increases in pay
• Classification levels
• Majority of SOs and SSOs are at top increment of
  their level
• Government sector deal will take months to
  formally conclude

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Challenges Principals, Deputies

• Difference between classification structures in
  VGS and Catholic schools
• Relativities between levels of Principal salary
  and new 75,500 rate for teachers at top of scale
• Relativities between Principal rates and other
  leadership positions
• Relativities between deputies on salary and the
  top of the scale, deputies with allowances

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Challenges - POLs

• Relationship between POL and VGS Leading Teachers
  rates
• Previously 6 pay points 6 levels of POL
• Leading teachers compressed into 3 pay points
  78019, 80,242, 82530
• Leading teacher bonus -1500 at top 3 levels
• POL Allowances? 2519, 4752, 7030
• Current POLs are (1)1895,(2)3843,(3)5847,
  (4)7908,(5)10027,(6)12208

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Challenges for Independent Schools

• Status of current agreement or lack thereof!
• Government sector benchmarking
• Schools that commit to above VGS
• Leapfrogging
• Getting to the bargaining table
• Dealing with the new industrial framework for
  agreement making.

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The process from here

• Continue negotiations with Catholic employer
• Depending on progress, continue to campaign on
  our issues
• In-principle Agreement considered by Committee
  of Management
• With COM endorsement - to meetings of VIEU
  Councils
• With VIEU Council endorsement - to ratification
  by VIEU members at sub branch level over
  approximately 2 weeks
• With majority member ratification, General
  Secretary signs off on Agreement.
• Agreement then goes through formal process of
  employee voting. With two weeks notice, a formal
  ballot will be held in each workplace of all
  employees to be covered.
• On a majority in favour vote, Agreement will be
  lodged.

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Non-members

• Everyone in schools will benefit from the
  Agreement.
• VIEU members campaigned for it.
• VIEU negotiates it
• VIEU resources come from VIEU membership fees.
• Isnt it about time non-members paid their way?