“The
Minister of Education, Trevor Mallard, has been caught
between a PPTA rock and an NZEI hardplace with the
recommendations of the independent arbitration panel on the
secondary pay claim,” says NZ First MP, Brian
Donnelly.
“There is simply no way that the NZEI will take
what is effectively the demolition of pay parity lying
down”.
“A third compulsory sector contract, the area
school contract, has not yet even come to negotiation. Once
it does, gains in the secondary contract will have to be
included. Those improvements will have to apply to those
teaching secondary as well as primary classes in those
schools”.
“The anomalies in the system which was the
driver behind the pay parity crusade will be recreated and
the cycle will begin again.”
“All in all, these conditions
presage a stormy time ahead for education,” said Mr
Donnelly.
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