WITH school camps and excursions at risk under the Australian Education Union
planned protest for 2013, the Victorian Government has threatened legal
interference if industrial action continues.
Negotiations for a new
enterprise bargaining agreement commenced approximately two years ago, but the
State Government and the Australian Education Union’s (AEU) have not been able
to reach an agreement on improved pay and working conditions.
On Friday
however, Victoria Minister responsible for the Teaching Profession Peter Hall
said the union had gone too far.
“The Coalition Government will no longer
tolerate actions like the planned state-wide strike on February 14 that will
cause significant disruption to the start of the school year and to the
education of Victorian government school students,” Mr Hall said.
“We have
informed the unions that if they do not cease their threatened industrial action
by January 29, it is the Coalition Government’s intention to seek an injunction
from the Federal Court, under the Fair Work Act, to prevent such actions.”
More on this story in Monday’s edition of The Guardian (21/1/13).
