00:02The bitter battle between public school workers and the government is becoming intractable.
00:08We deserve a better way!
00:10I'm hoping that maybe we can get things sorted before having to strike.
00:14No one really, really wants to strike again.
00:17Education workers are set to walk off the job next Thursday for the second time in less than four months.
00:23They're holding out for a 35% pay increase over three years after rejecting a deal which would have included
00:30pay rises over four years of between 28 and 32%.
00:35There was no way that I was able to say yes, both as an ed support person and for the
00:40teachers as well.
00:41I am very supportive. I think our teachers here are fabulous.
00:45It's fun if you get a day off, but I also think that it would be good to have school.
00:51The graduate pay gap between Victorian teachers and their New South Wales counterparts has widened over the past six years,
00:59with a New South Wales teacher now being paid more than $10,000 a year extra for the same job.
01:06It's not just about the terms and conditions.
01:09We need the government to act on school funding and that's in the interests of every Victorian student and of
01:15course their families.
01:16The proposed deal that was put would have seen teachers become amongst the highest paid in Australia.
01:21The industrial action also includes a ban on unpaid overtime and responding to department emails.
01:28And the union says while there is no deal, if a Labor MP steps foot on a state school grounds,
01:34it will lead to an immediate stop work.
01:37Why would AAU members welcome government politicians into our schools when they have purposefully decided to make our schools the
01:48lowest funded in the country?
01:49Well my advice to the Education Minister would be to sort this out and to guarantee this strike won't happen
01:55Thursday next week.
01:57Negotiations are continuing while parents prepare for more possible disruption.
02:05Negotiations are continuing while parents prepare for more vitamins and traditions and traditions.
02:09You
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