Campaigns

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 …

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 …

IEU Speaks – Letter to Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash – re VET and ELICOS

26th February, 2021

Chris Watt, Federal Secretary of the IEUA has written to Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, on behalf of IEU members employed in the private post-secondary education sector. You can download a PDF version to read here. The …

The COVID Jab – Who, what, when, where, why?

15th February, 2021

Whilst Australian states are still managing COVID spot-fires, the game changer worldwide is the rollout of vaccinations to as many as possible, as quickly as possible. The two main emerging issues for the IEU are: Raising school staff up the priority list and Avoiding the …

IEU submission to Australian Government Automatic Mutual Recognition Legislation

15th February, 2021

(Download a PDF version of this submission – click here)   Submission: Australian Government Automatic Mutual Recognition of Occupational Registrations – Exposure Draft Legislation The Independent Education Union of Australia (IEU) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback regarding the Australian Government’s Automatic Mutual Recognition of …

IEU Member Briefing – Re Proposed changes to the Teachers Registration and Standards Act 2014

21st May, 2020

20 May 2020 The Independent Education Union in South Australia represents teachers working in non- government schools—this is approximately one third of teachers on the Register. We provided a comprehensive response to the Review of the Act to the Parliamentary Committee in May 2019. We …

IEU Member Advice #1 – COVID-19

13th March, 2020

  13 March 2020 As COVID-19 has reached the pandemic stage and is likely to spread more widely in Australia it raises questions for workers regarding their rights and entitlements under scenarios ranging from work closure to forced quarantine. Employers will need to balance competing …

IEU Speaks – IWD. Campaigning for safer workplaces.

5th March, 2020

CAMPAIGNING FOR A SAFER WORKPLACES On International Women’s Day, IEU members call out Workplace Gendered Violence (Download PDF version of this article here) What is Workplace Gendered Violence? Workplace gendered violence is any behaviour, action, system or structure in a workplace that causes physical, sexual, …

IEU Speaks – IWD. Generation Equality.

5th March, 2020

  INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY GENERATION EQUALITY On International Women’s Day, IEU members are called to challenge stereotypes, fight bias, and campaign for Gender Equality. (Download this article in PDF format here) International Women’s Day is time to reflect on progress, to call for change and …

Annual Membership Update

6th December, 2019

New fee category for 2020 IEU(SA) membership fees have remained unchanged for the last two years, but the time has come that we cannot absorb our cost increases for a third year and maintain the level of support and service that members rightly expect from their Union. …