„We are also pleased that SPANZ is now being consulted on the work of the High School Principals Agreement. The president of the Training Institute, Liam Rutherford, sent an email to its members saying that the main association`s plan „directly threatens“ the union`s unity and asked them to discuss it with principals. He said there were about 2,000 primary and secondary school principals and the vast majority belonged to the NZEI. The second core capital collective agreement expires on September 1, 2022. Vaughan Couillault, vice-president of the Secondary Principals` Association, said the agreement was „strongly supported by major secondary obligators across the country.“ Hundreds of primary school principals want to break away from the training institute and create a new union. Potter said the union represented teachers, principals and support staff, and that these groups could support each other in their respective negotiations and campaigns. „The headteachers have given their support to the teachers, who have come out of collective bargaining very well. The heads of schools have gone on strike several times for their commercial terms and there is a broad consensus among the main principles that the union did not enter into these negotiations with the energy they hoped for,“ he said. We are interested in doing better for headteachers, that is the job of the New Zealand Principals Federation. The contractors are not happy, we want to remain open on how to move forward. Rush said that if a new union were created, it would create a situation similar to that of the secondary education sector, where headteachers would be represented by two organizations – the Secondary Directors Union and the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA).
Part 4 of the collective agreement of the principals obliged describes the responsibility of the working committee to develop the performance agreement of the principal obliged. An investor is entitled to additional payments to his base salary, as stipulated in his collective agreement or individual employment contract. These items are added to the client`s compensation and are subject to an annual review. Secondary governments voted to accept the government`s latest salary offer. This was the first offer made by the main unions – Secondary Principals` Association NZ (SPANZ), Post Primary Teachers` Association (PPTA) and New Zealand Secondary Principals` Council (NZSPC) – earlier this month. A member of the NZEI executive team, Mark Potter, said the creation of a new union would weaken the collective voice of school leaders. Education Minister Iona Holsted said she was pleased that principals had voted in favour of settling scores. He said some principals were frustrated by the lack of progress on issues like workload, but he also spoke to principals who want to stay at NZEI. An organization that represents principals wants the government to abolish a program that costs $100 million a year, most of it in additional salary for teachers and principals. Identifying and developing appropriate indicators is part of the development of a performance agreement. Potter said the majority of the union`s senior members accepted the imitability of their collective agreement last year.
Rush said contractors were dissatisfied with the IND on three key issues: the union`s current focus on pay equity for support staff, lack of progress on workload, welfare issues and last year`s collective agreement. „The possibility of a bespoke primary union is on the table, we are curious to know what the union`s response will be,“ he said.
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