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Speaker 1: Either duple Cy Ellen, as you probably know full well

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Speaker 1: if you've got a teenager in the house right now.

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Speaker 1: The secondary school teachers have been on strike today, picketing

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Speaker 1: around the country, included outside Erica Stanford's office. The PPTA

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Speaker 1: president Chris Abercrombie has been out there too, and he's

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Speaker 1: with us.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Chris good.

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Speaker 1: In the teachers versus Erica Stanford battle, I think that

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Speaker 1: Erica probably wins the public support.

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Speaker 2: What do you think, Ah, well, I wouldn't say it's

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Speaker 2: a battle, to be honest.

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Speaker 3: I say, we just want to make sure that we

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Speaker 3: can get the best for public education. Erica has come

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Speaker 3: out and said, you know, she wants a world class

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Speaker 3: education system.

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Speaker 2: We want the same.

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Speaker 3: So there's definitely common ground there, but it's just about

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Speaker 3: how we get to that space.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Do you do you think I mean, it's been a

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Speaker 1: while now since you announced the strike, do you think

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Speaker 1: public have swung in behind you or not?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely, we believe that. You know, we just needed

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Speaker 3: to see the support today. We had on various pickets,

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Speaker 3: heaps of two en heaps of on online, heaps in person.

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Speaker 3: You know, parents know what we're doing and we're know

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Speaker 3: why are we're doing it, so we definitely think we've

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Speaker 3: got the support.

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Speaker 1: Great. So when's the next strike.

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Speaker 3: Well, hopefully we won't need to have one, but we

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Speaker 3: do have some rostering home scheduled for the last week

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Speaker 3: of this term, the fifteenth of September onwards. We're really

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Speaker 3: hopeful we don't need to do that and that the

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Speaker 3: government comes to the party. We're meeting next week for bargaining,

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Speaker 3: so we're just really hopeful that we won't need to

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Speaker 3: do that. Industrial Action need to.

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Speaker 1: Chris, Thank you very much. Chris Abercrombie, a PPTA president.

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