The decision comes amid rolling strikes for secondary school teachers this week.
The vote for industrial action follows the union’s rejection of an offer of a pay rise between 2.7 – 4.6 percent.
Teacher Liam Rutherford, one of the NZEI Te Riu Roa primary teacher negotiation team leads, says the Government has made collective agreement offers that fail to match cost of living increases.
“The offers also ignore educators and children’s need for more support in the classroom and for Te Tiriti and te reo Māori.”, he said.
Principal negotiation team leader Martyn Weatherill says he and his colleagues love their jobs and would rather spend 23 October at school, but they would carry out a one-day strike to demand investment in education.
Support staff negotiation team leader Ally Kingi said: “The Government has spent huge sums on tax cuts for landlords, tax cuts for tobacco companies and huge increases in public sector board directors’ fees – now they need to invest in education.”
George Thomson
George Thomson is a Senior Journalist at Chris Lynch Media. He has experience working in newsrooms in New Zealand, Australia, and the UK. This article was originally published by Chris Lynch Media and is published here with kind permission.
Teacher Liam Rutherford, one of the NZEI Te Riu Roa primary teacher negotiation team leads, says the Government has made collective agreement offers that fail to match cost of living increases.
“The offers also ignore educators and children’s need for more support in the classroom and for Te Tiriti and te reo Māori.”, he said.
Principal negotiation team leader Martyn Weatherill says he and his colleagues love their jobs and would rather spend 23 October at school, but they would carry out a one-day strike to demand investment in education.
Support staff negotiation team leader Ally Kingi said: “The Government has spent huge sums on tax cuts for landlords, tax cuts for tobacco companies and huge increases in public sector board directors’ fees – now they need to invest in education.”
George Thomson
George Thomson is a Senior Journalist at Chris Lynch Media. He has experience working in newsrooms in New Zealand, Australia, and the UK. This article was originally published by Chris Lynch Media and is published here with kind permission.
13 comments:
i am astonished teachers as a group are clamouring for more te reo.With recent increased emphasis on results I thought teachers of real topics would need all the undistracted time thay can get to acheive. But then for decades now a pandering attitude to te reo has been a pre requisite for teachers so rational logic comes second. And of course the negotiating union wil have been , like near all others, completely infiltrated by maori supremicists..
Straight out political strike by teachers who are LGTPM supporters . IF i had kids i would not want these truth bending zealots near them .They are predators of the mind
Don't be fooled Robert, teachers don't give a rats about te reo.
When overpaid, under performing educators go on strike they always list a second reason to hide their greed.
Unfortunately no-one provides cover for taxpayers!
Talking about overpaid and underperforming, NZ is waking up the limitations of the National Party's Ardern.
National and Kiwis need a finance minister who isn't in the pockets of banks and supermarkets.
So come on Mr Luxon, we need a finance minister who has the intelligence and ethics required to lower Kiwis cost of living and win you the election.
I would have been sympathetic to a case based on the need to improve literacy and numeracy teaching and learning. Quite frankly, if primary teachers base their case on treaty politics and reo gibberish, it suggests to me that they are actually overpaid in terms of value for money.
On the Te Karere, the ruddy Maori TV indoctrination 'program', Minister Potaka said that One Billion dollars of Government money is being put into Maori language programs. That is ONE BILLION of our hard earned going into something of little real benefit to the Country - how much could that money help with health or other more pressing matters? It is a grift that is crippling New Zealand.
Unfortunately Robert, you are dead right.
We need all taxpayer funded roles to have their wages defined by the renumuration authority. Why do government workers get to hold the public hostage when the public don't have the choice of using their compelled monopoly services.
The root of evil in our schools is largely the influence academia has had on politicians , ministry of education and other educational institutions. They have forced all sorts of isms into schools . Fabianism ( which is a very devious movement since few people even know of it ), Marxism , constructivism ( which few people understand) progressivism and more.
All these -isms are hellbent on reshaping society NOT on educating
the child into succeeding academically using traditional methods , content and discipline which have and still are shown to be the most effective.
My anecdotal experience of teachers learning reo is that there is initial enthusiasm which often dissipates when they realise learning a new language is quite a bit of hard work . Unfortunately at the same time that reo is being promoted primary teachers are also being required to learn up the new and radically different structured phonic method of teaching reading and also teaching arithmetic more thoroughly. Both these new areas of learning require extra workloads on primary teachers who are frequently not particularly studious and often poor at basic arithmetic themselves.
I ask you please don't rave on about the dreadful failings of particularly primary teachers . They are as much victims of the rotten system of -iisms as we all are. Offer to be a class volunteer for those students failing . Learn up the complex English phonic system and help your own and other children.
The teacher unions are a big problem and not the voice of many teachers. Enforcing reo is largely cultural Marxism .
Perhaps if the teachers just went on permanent strike parents would not need to worry about how to pronounce made-up pidgin English Maori?
Well done Teachers, we’re all behind you on this week Te Wiki o Te Reo as we are in all weeks
Yes, anon@9.00am, I too heard Potaka indicate we're spending a $Billion on Maori language. Where is the public mandate for that and for what possible benefit to our economy, health, or productive education of our young? No, it's just a billion dollar virtue signal, promoting a useless stone-age language that no-one else in the world understands.
... and Willis wonders why our economic figures look so sick, stop spending it on pointless, virtue signalling - put it where it is needed the most! How can we achieve this? Would it be to put National's collective feet to the fire for trying to be more Liebour than Labour?
There will be no " public mandate" ( i.e. a referendum on this or any other pressing issue - including NZ's democracy). That is now crystal clear from Mr Luxon's National party - the same from Mr Hipkins's Labour party.
The steady and stealthy shift into an ethnocracy and tribal rule by 2040 latest is in full swing.
The 2026 election is the very last hope for NZers.
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