[Year 12 IT Apps] Pay Deal

[Brian Lennon]

Yes Allen

We had an AEU rep out to our school to talk about the agreement. She 
told us that the AEU accepted the Brumby government's figure of 3% 
inflation this year (a few days before her visit the Reserve Bank had 
published its figure of 4.5%)  and 2% the next few years - (the Reserve 
has said that it expects inflation for the next to at least to be above 
3%). Why a union negotiator would accept the employer's figures over the 
official Reserve Bank rates is totally incomprehensible to me. IF they 
are fair dinkum in representing us, that is.

I've set up a discussion board for Victorian Teachers at 
http://victorianteachersforum.mybb3.org/ 
<https://www.edumail.vic.gov.au/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://www.edumail.vic.gov.au/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://victorianteachersforum.mybb3.org/> . 
I think we all need to talk about this in a non-fragmented way. Feel 
free to register there, post your comments, and /_please_/ pass this 
info on to other teachers in other schools who might be interested in 
reading and/or joining a discussion. If someone in any particular school 
emails it to DL /yourschool/  it should go to everyone in their 
own school. This email needs to be passed on quickly to get enough 
coverage of Victorian teachers to form a serious debate about what to do 
with this proposed 2008 agreement.

Brian Lennon

Allan Barnes wrote:
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> Yes, given that inflation is currently running at 4.1%, it doesn't 
> even keep pace with the CPI. And it was the best deal that the AEU 
> could get!!
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