17,10,23 | Collective bargaining, Hear Our Voice
Queensland Catholic school employers have shamefully failed to hear members’ concerns and are essentially putting the same document that IEU members first rejected in October to a second ballot. IEU-QNT Branch Secretary Terry Burke said after employees in nearly 300...
21,09,23 | Collective bargaining, Hear Our Voice
Teachers and support staff in nearly 300 Queensland Catholic schools across the state have voted no to an employer attempt to cut current working conditions. The outcome of the recent employee ballot for Queensland Diocesan schools saw 51% of voters reject the...
11,09,23 | Collective bargaining, Hear Our Voice
Teachers and support staff in Queensland Catholic schools across the state are set to vote no to cuts to current working conditions as an employer document goes to ballot tomorrow. Independent Education Union – Queensland and Northern Territory (IEU-QNT) Branch...
07,09,23 | Hear Our Voice
The biggest attack in 20 years on Catholic school teachers and support staff working conditions has been slammed by the union representing these employees. Independent Education Union – Queensland and Northern Territory (IEU-QNT) Branch Secretary Terry Burke said...
23,08,23 | Hear Our Voice
Over 4000 Independent Education Union – Queensland and Northern Territory (IEU-QNT) members across 106 Queensland Catholic schools took strike action today (Wednesday, 23 August) for one (1) hour between 10am until 11am. From Cairns to the Gold Coast, Bowen to...
22,08,23 | Hear Our Voice
Over 4000 Independent Education Union – Queensland and Northern Territory (IEU-QNT) members across 106 Queensland Catholic schools are taking strike action tomorrow (Wednesday, 23 August) for one (1) hour between 10am until 11am. IEU-QNT Branch Secretary Terry Burke...
17,08,23 | Hear Our Voice
Over 4000 teachers and support staff in 106 Queensland Catholic schools will strike from 10am until 11am next Wednesday, 23 August 2023. The full list of the 106 schools where Independent Education Union – Queensland and Northern Territory (IEU-QNT) members are taking...
14,08,23 | Collective bargaining, Hear Our Voice, Member action
Thousands of employees across 34 Queensland Catholic schools will take protected industrial action tomorrow, Tuesday 15 August 2023. IEU-QNT members will stop work for five-minutes from 8:30-8:35am and undertake a range of “work bans” throughout the day. The action...
14,08,23 | Collective bargaining, Hear Our Voice, Member action
Hundreds of employees across 13 Toowoomba Catholic schools will take protected industrial action tomorrow, Tuesday 15 August 2023. IEU-QNT members will stop work for five-minutes from 8:30-8:35am and undertake a range of “work bans” throughout the day. The schools...
11,08,23 | Collective bargaining, Hear Our Voice, Workers' rights
In an Australian first, thousands of Queensland Catholic school employees in over 100 schools are set to lose a full day’s pay for taking a five-minute work stoppage and a range of limited work bans on Tuesday, 15 August 2023. IEU-QNT Branch Secretary Terry Burke said...
11,08,23 | Hear Our Voice
Queensland Catholic employers have been warned against major wage deduction of employees’ pay over a five-minute work stoppage next week. Thousands of Queensland Catholic school teachers and support staff are taking a five-minute stop work action next Tuesday, 15...
23,06,23 | Hear Our Voice
Queensland Catholic Schools Colb10 Protected Action Ballot Orders approved in Catholic schools A series of union applications for Protected Action Ballot Orders (PABO) filed with the Fair Work Commission (FWC) have now been issued by the Fair Work Commission . The...
08,06,23 | Hear Our Voice
Queensland Catholic school employers have given employees a ‘take it or leave it’ position regarding the current negotiations for a replacement collective agreement. IEU Branch Secretary Terry Burke said that position was merely the wage offer they should have made...
18,05,23 | Hear Our Voice
Queensland Catholic school employers are using the current collective bargaining negotiations to directly attack a critical employee working right held for close to 30 years. IEU Branch Secretary Terry Burke said such an attack had not been seen in our sector...
22,03,23 | Hear Our Voice
Queensland Catholic school employers have been called out for their failure to address, or even have a plan to fix, the current workload crisis facing the sector’s teachers. IEU-QNT Branch Secretary Terry Burke said workload and work intensification were preventing...
