TAFE workers’ rights ‘not for sale’

TAFE workers will join university staff around Australia on June 1 to protest the federal Coalition government’s attacks on the tertiary education sector.

In NSW, TAFE employees will stop work to participate in city rallies and protests outside federal parliamentarian’s offices.

On May 25, NSW Teachers Federation president Maree O’Halloran said, “TAFE teachers will take action to show their support for public education. They will not allow the federal government to hold teachers to ransom.”

O’Halloran explained that “the federal government is threatening to withhold funding unless the states agree to a range of changes that will undermine working conditions, salaries and the workplace rights of staff in TAFE”.