Thousands of TAFE teachers at statewide stopwork meetings have voted overwhelmingly in support of further industrial action, including a possible 24 hour strike in the week commencing 31 August 2009, if there is no satisfactory progress in this dispute.
Bob Lipscombe, President of the NSW Teachers Federation said:
"Members are extremely disappointed that the Premier and Minister have not intervened to resolve this matter in a fair and mutually agreeable way.
"Voting figures indicate that over 99.9% of TAFE teachers attending stopwork meetings support a 24 hour strike if a negotiated settlement can't be achieved. They rejected DET proposals to increase teaching hours, remove professional development and other adverse changes to working conditions."
Attendance at meetings this morning has been in record numbers. Members have displayed their anger and have moved additional resolutions calling for even stronger industrial action and work bans.
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