Mega-strike incoming: Govt on offensive, union leader fires back
In saying the strikes were “politically motivated”, Collins pointed to the number one item on the agenda for a meeting between Education Minister Erica Stanford and the secondary teachers’ union being Palestine.
“Not terms and conditions. Not student achievement. Not the new curriculum. Palestine. That’s not what students or parents should expect,” Collins wrote.
PPTA president Chris Abercrombie responded, calling the letter “disappointing”, and saying that Stanford’s office had told them there would be no discussion of terms and conditions of an agreement
Abercrombie said the meeting was cancelled before any agenda items were formally submitted, adding that Palestine was only one of several topics it wanted to discuss with the minister, including NCEA changes and artificial intelligence in education.
He said its placement at the top of the list did not indicate priority.
…by pretending Palestine was the only issue Unions wanted to discuss, National are showing what a pack of disingenuous scumbags they are.
The irony that Judith Collins was in Washington DC flirting with the American Military Industrial Complex while lecturing Teachers on Palestine and then using the genocide to deflect highlights how insincere and mendacious National are being with striking teachers.
This is the real clincher…
“This strike is unfair and unwarranted,” she said, adding that while the Government valued public sector workers — including teachers, nurses, and doctors — it must also manage finances responsibly amid tight budgets and growing demands.
She pointed to increased public spending during Covid and rising debt.
…she’s got $400million for attack helicopters, hundred of millions of the Tobacco industry, and $14.6billion for tax cuts and landlords, but no money for the people teaching our children.
National started the fire and Judith is blaming us for not putting that fire out with the half full glass of water they’ve given us.
Unbelievable.
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Unions trying to get a fair salary for teachers to at least match inflation and Judith moans. Judith trying to use her influence( massive conflict of interest) to gain her husband cross border favours aka Oravida and doesn’t see an issue?
What has our position on Gaza got to do with pay rise negotiations.
Nothing so why has Judith Collins made an issue out of it trev
So why was it on the list of topics to discuss drawn up by the union
So why is Luxon politicizing it Trevor?
You just answered your own question. Diversion !
Trevor, Stanfords office already said they wouldn’t discuss pay conditions so get your story straight.
Another CoC MP has lost the plot! The lying conniving Collins has skewed the truth to fit her spiteful rhetoric. Scumbags is way too nice to describe this hateful CoC. So the strike is ‘unfair and unwarranted’ – boo hoo. Clear to see she’s today’s rottweiler, sent in by Luxon to bully and threaten. Does she not understand that Labour spent money SAVING LIVES during a serious Covid pandemic, a factor hugely acknowledged by other affected countries? Has she truly not considered how much worse it would have been had this miserable lot been in at the time? While she is bitching about what Labour spent on Covid, how come she can’t remember that through her incompetence she lost a $100m navy vessel and a $88m satellite – does this stupid ‘old bag’ also now have dementia, or is she yet another CoC MP with ‘foot-in-mouth’ disease.
1.2 billion for new roads, nothing for teachers, nurses, police, doctors and fireman. We know where the priorities are for this government and it’s not the people.