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Speaker 1: Well, I think we can quite accurately use the word

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Speaker 1: brilliant to describe the latest move from the government's man

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Speaker 1: in the primary teachers pay negotiations. So Brian Roach, the

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Speaker 1: Public Services Commissioner, has today gone around the union and

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Speaker 1: offered a pay increase of four point seven percent of

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Speaker 1: primary teachers who are not in the union the first

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Speaker 1: chunk of the pay rise. If they agree to it.

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Speaker 1: The first chunk of the pay rise will kick in

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Speaker 1: in nineteen days, and the next chunk will kick in

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Speaker 1: in January next year. Now this is clever because this

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Speaker 1: undermines the union because the union hasn't settled yet have

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Speaker 1: they For the last nine months they have refused to

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Speaker 1: settle their pay agreement until the treaty is recognized in

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Speaker 1: the teachers contracts, and until the government pays teachers more

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Speaker 1: for their overnight camp allowance. For God's sake, there must

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Speaker 1: be and I am basing this on the text traffic

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Speaker 1: that we get to this show, there must be huge

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Speaker 1: numbers of teachers growing increasingly frustrated with the union getting

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Speaker 1: hung up on ideology over pay while they lose up

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Speaker 1: to seventy six dollars a week in income that they

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Speaker 1: are not getting because the negotiations are not wrapped up.

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Speaker 1: Soure is now on the NZDI big time, isn't it,

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Speaker 1: because feasibly these teachers who are members can simply do

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Speaker 1: what ten thousand of their colleagues have already done, which

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Speaker 1: is to either not join the union or leave the union,

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Speaker 1: and they can get their pay rise faster without the

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Speaker 1: union than with the union. Now, personally, I love that

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Speaker 1: this is happening because it became obvious to me twenty

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Speaker 1: years ago as a junior reporter at TV and Z

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Speaker 1: that unions were not much used to me back then,

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Speaker 1: and what's happened since with unions is much worse because

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Speaker 1: they are now actively holding up pay negotiations for really

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Speaker 1: stupid reasons. So brilliant move from the Public Services Commissioner.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait to see whether this forces the union to

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Speaker 1: wrap up the pay talks to save themselves from an

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Speaker 1: exodus of clever teachers. For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive,

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