School teachers and principals across the country have agreed to stage New Zealand’s largest-ever strike as negotiations with the Ministry of Education continue to stall. The Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) and New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI)...
Earlier this week a trade unionist wrote for The Spinoff about the rise of public service strike action under the Labour government. Today former Green Party education spokesperson Catherine Delahunty shares her perspective. I have heard...
Primary school teachers have today announced they are prepared to strike to get a significant pay hike. A pay deal with the government ends next year, but teachers say they aren’t prepared to accept...
Primary teachers and principals have committed to taking action next year in order to give every child more teacher time, and attract more people to teaching. At their annual conference in Rotorua today, members of NZEI Te...
And so it begins. The non-sensical dribble spews forth from the under-secretary of Education, who gets into a lucrative position on the back of one electorate described on Wikipedia as an “exclusive, affluent suburb...
