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Ryan Bridge: Teachers deserve a pay rise · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: I can't see what the problem is with teachers getting
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  Speaker 1: a pay rise. Can you guess who does have a
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  Speaker 1: problem with teachers getting a pay rise? A teachers union.
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  Speaker 1: I know, how does that work. The union that's always
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  Speaker 1: saying teachers are undervalued, they're underpaid, doesn't want to pay rise.
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  Speaker 1: They're actually going to take legal action to try and
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  Speaker 1: stop it from happening. It's upside down day today, folks.
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  Speaker 1: It's back to front. This is the primary teacher union.
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  Speaker 1: They've been dragging out collective bargaining nine months in counting now.
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  Speaker 1: So in the meantime, Old Mates of Brian Roch is
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  Speaker 1: offering non union teachers employed on individual agreements up to
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  Speaker 1: an extra four point seven percent within twelve months. That's
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  Speaker 1: two and a half percent from March, then two point
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  Speaker 1: one percent next year. This is, according to the government,
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  Speaker 1: an extra fifty to seventy six bucks a week in
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  Speaker 1: your pocket for a teacher. A third of primary teachers
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  Speaker 1: that's about ten thousand aren't part of the union. Now
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  Speaker 1: the union doesn't like this because they say it's the
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  Speaker 1: government trying to break their unity, but the reality is
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  Speaker 1: they're not unified. A third of them don't pay subs
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  Speaker 1: to the union so therefore can go down the individual
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  Speaker 1: route with school boards. Last time I checked, they were adults.
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  Speaker 1: It's the kids that they're teaching, remember, and the union members,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, they can accept this off for two
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  Speaker 1: but they choose not to. Well, the union chooses not to.
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  Speaker 1: To your average KEI we a union trying to stop
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  Speaker 1: non union teachers from getting a pay rise during a
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  Speaker 1: cost of living crisis by bringing in their expensive lawyers
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  Speaker 1: looks messy, controlling, and frankly a little unfair. Throw into
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  Speaker 1: the mix you've got the other teacher unions demanding updates
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  Speaker 1: on the war in Gaza and the fact that student
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  Speaker 1: achievement was pretty much in the bin for many years,
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  Speaker 1: and they start to look well beyond out of touch
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  Speaker 1: with the rest of us, don't they. For more from
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