IEU News - Class Action

You Can’t Preach Fairness on Sunday and Underpay Staff on Monday

Catholic Enterprise Bargaining 2024 (EB24) negotiations stalled on Tuesday 28 November after the employers refused to negotiate further on key IEU claims, which include: Salary and Allowances Workload and Class Size Curriculum Extension Activities ESO Span of Hours – Stop the employers’ cut to take-home …

Catholic EB24 – Update

Enterprise Bargaining (EB) isn’t just a procedural step where there are a few meetings and the employer gives us what we want.  It is a defining moment where educators stand together to shape their professional lives, champion fair conditions and defend the quality education in …

Catholic EB24 Update – March 2025

The Enterprise Bargaining (EB) negotiations are continuing on a fortnightly basis. The IEU(SA) Bargaining Team, supported by a range of member experts, have been detailing the IEU(SA) claims, and putting proposals to the employer on how these claims can be addressed. Member feedback has been …

Catholic EB24 negotiations update

Recently, members in Catholic schools received an update from CESA regarding the progress of bargaining. CESA said that the key themes to-date from staff include improved salary and allowances and responding to workload pressures. We agree. That’s why we’ve called for smaller class sizes & …

Catholic EB24 – Meeting 4: ESOs increasing work and complexity

Yesterday, your IEU(SA) Bargaining Team, led by Louisa Fidock (Library Assistant, Saint Ignatius’), talked about ESOs increasing work and complexity. Listen to her summary below:  We proposed measures to reduce ESOs working unpaid overtime, working through breaks, or having unmanageable workloads – including student …

Catholic EB24 negotiations – Meeting 3

28 November 2024 Yesterday, your IEU team met with the CESA (the employer) to continue bargaining. Our agenda was focused on practical class sizes and ESO workload. The employer wanted to talk about their ideas on teacher workload, changes they want to teacher conditions of …

Catholic EB24 Update

The employer (CESA) has agreed to meet with the IEU to start bargaining in week 1 of next term. Meetings will be fortnightly thereafter. We will provide regular updates to members and seek your input. Did you know:The maximum face to face teaching load of …

Catholic EB24 – We are Ready!

It’s official, bargaining soon to commence for the Catholic EB24, and we have one message for CESA and Catholic Employers – We are Ready! In the lead up to your current agreement expiring on 31 July we wrote to CESA setting out your claims. We …

Reporting incidents in Catholic schools

There seems to be a concerning trend in Catholic schools that staff are unaware of how and when they should be reporting incidents. The Catholic Safety Health & Welfare’s (CSHW SA) own flow chart states that incidents/ injuries are to be reported in the database …

Catholic EA Pre-vote Q&A Zoom Sessions for members