IEU members at a Queensland independent school are celebrating after staff overwhelmingly voted to endorse the school’s first ever collective agreement.
The wage outcome secured by members provides a 3 per cent annual increase for each year of the three-year agreement, with a guarantee from the employer to match the Queensland state sector annual wage percentage increases if this outcome exceeds 3 per cent in any year of the agreement.
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