Various TAFE Branches have held meetings and directed their members to undertake specific actions in support of their claim. 

As “in principle” agreement has now been reached, all industrial action is to cease immediately.

Other branches are still to meet on this matter. The actions the branches who have met are listed below.

There are two major issues which the employers are unwilling to take off the table. 

1. Changes to your ARD conditions – Amendment 1  

“Remove the distinction between PA and ARD time, creating a „non-lecturing? category of time (16.5 hours). The use of this time would be negotiated between lecturer and manager. Time worked off campus would be by agreement between lecturer and manager”.

Please note that there are a couple of alternative permutations of the above being pushed by the employers. 

2. Removal of conversion to permanency policy. 

The employers will not agree to our tabled clause which would provide for permanency after 2 years.

Industrial Action: 

As “in principle” agreement has now been reached, all industrial action is to cease immediately.

Please find attached SSTUWA directives to those branches who have already determined the industrial action they are taking. 

Branch Industrial Action – AMEP

All AMEP branch members are directed to

• “Stop doing the paper work for transferring and withdrawing students
• Work to rule - including not answering emails and not answering phones, except in PA time”

until an in principle agreement has been reached.

Branch Industrial Action – Armadale

All branch members at Armadale campus are directed to “Only respond to Administration emails within scheduled PA time until an in-principle agreement has been reached.”

Branch Industrial Action – Balga

All branch members at Balga campus are directed to “Not use the lecturers’ portal or ASRI for the electronic marking of rolls or resulting until an in-principle agreement has been reached.

Lecturers may keep manual records. This action is effective immediately.”

Branch Industrial Action – Bentley

All branch members at Thornlie campus are directed Not to enter student results until in-principle agreement has been reached.

Branch Industrial Action – Bunbury

All branch members at Bunbury campus are directed to “Delay resulting students? work until an 'in principle' agreement has been reached on the TAFE Agreement.”

Branch Industrial Action – Fleet Street

All  branch  members at Fleet Street campus are directed to  take the following industrial action:

• Do not use ASRI for resulting.
• Do no roll creations.
• Do not process applications for awards.
• Do not use lecturer portals nor attend training for this.
• Only respond to emails and phone calls during professional activities time of 4.5 hours and never at lunchtime.
• Do not attend lunchtime meetings.

Branch Industrial Action – Geraldton

All branch members at Geraldton campus are directed Not to enter student results until in-principle agreement has been reached.

Branch Industrial Action – Karratha

All branch members at Karratha campus are directedt to withhold student results from this point on until further notice due to a lack of timely progress in negotiations.

Branch Industrial Action – Midland

All branch members at Thornlie campus are directed Not to enter student results until in-principle agreement has been reached.

Branch Industrial Action – South Hedland and Pundulmurra

All branch members at South Hedland and Pundulmurra campuses are directed to “Withhold student results from this point on until further notice due to a lack of timely progress in negotiations”.

Branch Industrial Action – Rockingham

All branch members at Rockingham campus are directed to take the following industrial action:

• Respond to e-mails only in Professional Activities Time.
• Complete only 4.5 hours of Professional Activities Time per week.
• Ban the use of ASRI and resulting.
• Ban the use of the lecturer’s portal.
• Ban meetings during meal breaks.

Branch Industrial Action – Thornlie

All branch members at Thornlie campus are directed Not to enter student results until in-principle agreement has been reached.

Branch Industrial Action – West Coast

All branch members at West Coast Institute of Training are directed to take the following industrial action:

• Not enter student results until in-principle agreement has been reached
• Only carry out professional activities in their designated professional activities time (4.5 hours per week for non FHA lecturers).
• Re-direct any phone or personal enquiries they receive outside their designated Professional Activities Time to their Program Manager.