Campaigns

Joint Media Release: Failed Vaccine Roll Out Leaves Schools, Communities Unsafe

13th July, 2021

  13 July 2021 FAILED VACCINE ROLL OUT LEAVES SCHOOLS, COMMUNITIES UNSAFE Teachers, Educators and Education Support Staff struggling to get access to vaccination has left schools and early learning centres unsafe, and society without a clear path out of the Covid-19 mess, three major …

IEU(SA) On Air – ABC Radio – News – Priority vaccinations in schools

4th June, 2021

IEU(SA) Secretary Glen Seidel interviewed ‘on air’ by ABC News regarding the ‘priority vaccinations’ joint media release by the IEU and AEU – click the image above or this link to listen

Letter to Minister Gardner calling for priority COVID vaccinations for all education staff

2nd June, 2021

Further to the joint media release by the IEU(SA) and AEU SA, IEU Secretary, Glen Seidel, has written to the Minister for Education, The Hon John Gardner MP, requesting the Marshall government to action to offer priority COVID vaccinations for all education staff. You can …

IEU and AEU call for priority access to COVID-19 vaccinations for all education staff

1st June, 2021

MEDIA RELEASE • MEDIA RELEASE Tuesday, 1 June 2021 Today the South Australian Branches of the Australian Education Union and the Independent Education Union renew calls for priority access to COVID-19 vaccinations for all education staff. Teachers, leaders and support staff are employed in primary, secondary …

Everyone knows where the union is if they need help…

26th May, 2021

Everyone knows where the union is if they need help… It seems that not a week goes by at IEU that we don’t have a plea for help from someone wanting to join our union because of serious issues at their school that either threaten …

Young people are active and unions are in the discussion.

26th May, 2021

And rightly so… Fresh off the back of School Strike 4 Climate, #enoughisenough and March 4 Justice, the world is seeing a higher level of activism in response to world issues ignored by governments deemed ‘out of touch’ and not achieving real outcomes for climate …

School Strike 4 Climate Rally – 21 May

26th May, 2021

The IEU(SA) stood together with students in a crowd of approximately 2000 marchers, rallying in support of the School Strike 4 Climate. After the welcome to country and speeches, we marched up and back King William Street in protest. The IEU is one Australia’s three …

Education Support Staff Week – 16 – 22 May 2021

14th May, 2021

This week we are celebrating Education Support Staff. You can download, print and display our A3 poster around your school to show your support staff that you care and appreciate them. Put your hand up and organise a morning tea, lunch or afternoon tea to thank …

COVID Jabs – Minister Gardner replies to IEU letter

25th March, 2021

The rollout of COVID vaccinations has proceeded at a glacial pace with lobbying at the various state and federal levels as to what priority ranking various classes of workers should have. School, retail and transport workers have mounted reasonable cases to be assigned either Phase …

March 4 Justice – Enough is Enough on gendered violence!

25th March, 2021

Your union marched in solidarity with ‘March 4 Justice’ – the biggest rally in Adelaide for the last two decades. 8000 demonstrators had a clear message about gendered violence – Enough is Enough!   A quick pictorial summary of the March… March 4 Justice is Calling …