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  • Valuing Teachers: Teacher Salaries Compared

    A pay deal offered to teachers would put some among the country’s top earners.

    Teachers are stuck in a stand-off with the Government over its latest pay offer.

    What’s been offered – and rejected – looks something like this.

    Primary teachers with a degree, or advanced diploma, would have their base salaries increase to a range of $52,429 to $82,992, from $47,980 to $71,891 currently. Primary teachers with teaching qualifications and a specialist subject degree would get a bit more — $54,186 to $85,481.

    A beginner secondary teacher’s base salary would increase from $51,200 to $55,948 if they were to start teaching in 2021.

    More than 10,000 primary teachers, or about a third, get more than the top of the base scale (currently $71,891) because they receive extra payments in recognition of management or leadership responsibilities.

    The latest rejected offer would put a primary teacher with one unit for extra responsibilities at $89,481 a year by 2021.

     Almost 60 per cent, or 12,000 secondary teachers, are paid above the top of their base scale.

     

    Full Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/113366626/valuing-teachers-does-pay-deal-stack-up

  • Secondary School Teachers to Strike

    Secondary teachers will go on strike next month after “running out of patience” with collective contract negotiations, their union’s president says.

    Thousands of teachers will walk off the job in a national day of action on April 3.

    At a Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) meeting in Rotorua on Saturday, president Jack Boyle said teachers hoped to receive “a realistic offer” from the Government before then. More talks are planned for March 7 and 8.

    “If we don’t, we will use the day to publicly protest the lack of progress,” Boyle said.

    “We have been negotiating with Government for a settlement to our collective agreement since August last year and our members are running out of patience.”

    In November, PPTA members voted against the Ministry of Education’s second offer of a 9 per cent pay rise over three years.

    Members authorised a one-day strike at that time, but were willing to call off the strike if they received a better offer.

    Read Full Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/110979827/secondary-school-teachers-to-strike