Day by DayNo man is an island, entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne.
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450,000 teachers, childcare & education workers could be next target for AWAs if coalition re-electedPublished: 13/11/2007Australia’s 450,000 childcare workers, school teachers, TAFE and university staff could be the next target for AWA individual contracts under WorkChoices if the Howard Govt is re-elected, say unions.
Education workers across Australia will today highlight concerns that a re-elected Howard-Costello Govt will tie federal funding and incentives to the introduction of AWAs in the education and childcare sectors, as part of the Liberals’ move to extend WorkChoices after the election.
The federal government has already used the threat of cutting university funding by $280 million to compulsorily push AWA contracts onto academic and other staff in the tertiary sector.
Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey last week refused to release research into a Govt plan to reduce the award safety net and push a further 1.5 million workers onto AWAs.
Meeting with childcare & education workers today, ACTU President Sharan Burrow said:
“School teachers, TAFE teachers, university staff and childcare workers could be the next people hurt by WorkChoices. Make no mistake, if the coalition is re-elected they’ll go further with their IR laws.
“Work Choices will destroy their wages and conditions and limit their prospects for a decent career path. But the biggest cost will come at the expense of our kids.
“Pushing AWAs into schools will deter the best and brightest from pursuing teaching as a career and could threaten the quality of education provided to students and reduce the quality of care for our children.”
Ms Burrow said the education and care sectors had already been undermined by Mr Howard’s disastrous WorkChoices laws by:
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