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Speaker 1: I can't see what the problem is with teachers getting

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Speaker 1: a pay rise. Can you guess who does have a

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Speaker 1: problem with teachers getting a pay rise? A teachers union.

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Speaker 1: I know, how does that work. The union that's always

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Speaker 1: saying teachers are undervalued, they're underpaid, doesn't want to pay rise.

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Speaker 1: They're actually going to take legal action to try and

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Speaker 1: stop it from happening. It's upside down day today, folks.

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Speaker 1: It's back to front. This is the primary teacher union.

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Speaker 1: They've been dragging out collective bargaining nine months in counting now.

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Speaker 1: So in the meantime, Old Mates of Brian Roch is

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Speaker 1: offering non union teachers employed on individual agreements up to

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Speaker 1: an extra four point seven percent within twelve months. That's

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Speaker 1: two and a half percent from March, then two point

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Speaker 1: one percent next year. This is, according to the government,

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Speaker 1: an extra fifty to seventy six bucks a week in

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Speaker 1: your pocket for a teacher. A third of primary teachers

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Speaker 1: that's about ten thousand aren't part of the union. Now

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Speaker 1: the union doesn't like this because they say it's the

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Speaker 1: government trying to break their unity, but the reality is

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Speaker 1: they're not unified. A third of them don't pay subs

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Speaker 1: to the union so therefore can go down the individual

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Speaker 1: route with school boards. Last time I checked, they were adults.

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Speaker 1: It's the kids that they're teaching, remember, and the union members,

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Speaker 1: by the way, they can accept this off for two

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Speaker 1: but they choose not to. Well, the union chooses not to.

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Speaker 1: To your average KEI we a union trying to stop

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Speaker 1: non union teachers from getting a pay rise during a

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Speaker 1: cost of living crisis by bringing in their expensive lawyers

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Speaker 1: looks messy, controlling, and frankly a little unfair. Throw into

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Speaker 1: the mix you've got the other teacher unions demanding updates

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Speaker 1: on the war in Gaza and the fact that student

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Speaker 1: achievement was pretty much in the bin for many years,

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Speaker 1: and they start to look well beyond out of touch

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Speaker 1: with the rest of us, don't they. For more from

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