Vic agreement fears
Scared by voting no we may be doing an icarus.
28 percent over 4 years is the largest ever pay rate increase we have ever been offered as teachers. Is it enough to catch up to make up for 2022, probably not. But it helps and can be used later to catch up more.
It took nurses 6 months to renegotiate a new deal... after voting we have like 3 before government wont be able to do anything and it all comes down to an election that liberals or even one nation could possibly win. I hate they could but thats the reality... do we honestly think they would offer us anything better.
Are we really wanting to risk going like queensland union now forced to do 3 percent pay rises while we wait for the court system to figure out a deal.
We get new leaves with the reproductive leave. More ways to use our personal leave with the extra day we can use whenever for whatever. We get at least 3 more student free days we can use for whatever.
As much as i loathe it even if we get down to 1 meeting, we wont be keeping the year level domain one that we prefer, it will be the same very boring meetings that we have to do to tick off our vit registration.
Do we think there is enough time or that the government is not likely to say well lets wait until post election if we vote no.
Its an okay deal but there is a lot that could be worse.
Also we have only hit 7 percent inflation once during covid... 5 percent is very rare as well where we may only be seeing that one month this year right after the war.
Thoughts?