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  Activists honoured for contributions to our union

  July 03, 2022

  Today we celebrated 10 activists’ enduring commitment Federation, in a ceremony at Annual Conference.

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  Voices from the regions too loud for the government to ignore

  July 01, 2022

  Yesterday’s actions covered all corners of the state, from Tweed Heads to the ACT and all the way out to Broken Hill.

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  Tens of thousands of teachers send Premier a strong message on workload and salaries

  June 30, 2022

  Teachers from Government and Catholic schools in NSW took strike action across NSW and the ACT today, calling on the NSW Government to urgently act on the teacher shortage and its underlying cause - uncompetitive salaries and unsustainable workloads.

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  Teachers jam Sydney CBD as unified strike covers state

  June 30, 2022

  More than 20,000 teachers from NSW public and Catholic schools marched on NSW Parliament this morning to protest wages, workloads and staff shortages in a united front not seen for 26 years.

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  Principals and teachers strike over shortages

  June 30, 2022

  Principals and teachers from government and Catholic schools in NSW are striking today over the worsening teacher shortages which are affecting the education of children across the state.

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  HSC students stuck in classes of over 50 students due to the teacher shortages

  June 26, 2022

  Teachers and principals have reported mass disruptions to student learning in NSW public schools due to worsening teacher shortages.

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  Federation welcomes Opposition Leader’s commitment to build more public preschools

  June 23, 2022

  The NSW Teachers Federation has today welcomed Opposition Leader Chris Minns’s announcement that a Labor State Government will provide a preschool for every new public primary school as well as building 100 extra public preschools in its first term.

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  When you fail teachers, you fail children

  June 22, 2022

  We are in serious danger of burning out a generation of teachers, lost through overwork and disenchantment with the way their focus is constantly taken from their students to a mind-numbing amount of administration and compliance work. They also see a government in denial, unwilling to stand up for the profession or address the root causes of the shortages: the uncompetitive salaries and crippling workloads that are turning people away from teaching.