Local teachers join campaign

GIPPSLAND public school teachers, principals and support staff are joining the campaign launched by the Australian Education Union for a new Victorian Government Schools Agreement, which nominally expired last Friday.

The union says excessive workloads for principals, teachers and support staff must be addressed by the government in a new agreement through the employment of additional staff in public schools.

AEU Victorian branch president Meredith Peace said Gippsland government school teachers, principals and support staff were overworked and underpaid.

For more read Friday’s Gippsland Times.