All members are invited to attend information forums being run after school. Please note the first pay increase under the proposed Agreement came into the December 20 2011 pay period. This increase in pay will continue until the next agreed increase is due. See the SSTUWA Building The Future Campaign Website for details of after school forums. How To Vote Information...

Read more: 2011 Schools Log of Claims Forums

The final draft of the proposed replacement Agreement will be examined during the next week. TAFE Committee and Executive will have to formally endorse the document prior to voting. A voting period of four (4) weeks will be held with a ballot being sent out from the WAEC.

Read more: 2011 TAFE Log of Claims

The Gonski Schools Funding Review report was released yesterday and reveals the urgent need for reform of school funding arrangements and investment of at least an extra $3.8 billion a year in public schools. Around the nation parent and teacher representative groups are being welcomed into public schools to raise awareness of the Review and now the report, but it appears not in WA public schools.

Read more: Parent and teacher representative bodies ‘locked out of government schools’

Yesterday brought the release of the final report of the Gonski Review of school funding -  a once in a generation opportunity to reform Australia’s school funding system. The report revealed an urgent need for the reform of school funding arrangements and an investment of at least an extra $3.8 billion a year in public schools. Now you can have your say in how the Government responds.

Read more: Gonski schools funding review: Have your say

Union members are invited to join union colleagues at the UnionsWA sponsored celebration on Thursday 8 March 2012. International Women's Day 2012 celebrating women in the workforce - UnionsWA invites you to celebrate International Women's Day with a sundowner. The event will be addressed by guest speaker Professor Alison Preston, Director, Curtin Graduate School of Business, Women in Social and Economic Research.

Read more: International Women’s Day 8 March 2012

The School Leaders’ Council commences 2012 with their first meeting at Cottesloe Golf Club Swanbourne on 212th March, 2012. There is a full day of professional development for School Leaders’ Council members however non council members leaders are welcome to participate for the morning session, though places are limited. The full agenda can be seen online.

Read more: First 2012 School Leaders’ Council Announced

The long-awaited report of the Review of Funding for Schooling is set to be released next week and parents and teachers are being urged to take urgent action in support of better public school funding. The Federal Government has confirmed the Gonski Review report and its response to it will be handed down next Monday in Canberra.

Read more: Time to Act on School Funding

Late in 2011 the Department of Education stated that they will be providing additional support for Occupational Safety and Health management in schools with additional Occupational Safety and Health consultants being provided in the regions.

Read more: Department Signals New OSH Focus

A TEACHER in a Northern Territory school set upon by three teenage students in an unprovoked classroom attack will have his leg amputated next week in a Melbourne hospital. David Arnold, 64, a 2005 Teacher of the Year award winner, will undergo the life-changing procedure in the Epworth Hospital on Monday after nine operations since the assault in April, 2008 failed to save his leg after it was jumped and stomped on by the students.

Read more: Teacher to lose his leg after attack by students

A national tour and advertising blitz begins today as part of the final phase of a campaign for better funding for public schools. The tour will start in Brisbane in a campaign bus that will be visiting schools for meetings and forums with parents and teachers in Queensland, NSW, the ACT and Victoria.

Read more: National Tour for Better Public School Funding