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ECE ‘Boost’ An Administrative Burden For Whānau And Teachers
Tuesday, 26 March 2024, 5:44 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
"While any investment in ECE is welcome, this policy doesn't even begin to address the current crisis our ECE sector is facing.” More >>
Prime Minister's Punitive Welfare Sanctions Will Harm Children And Their Learning
Monday, 19 February 2024, 6:28 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
New Zealand’s largest education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, strongly condemns the punitive sanctions against people on welfare benefits Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced this afternoon, saying that any sanctions a government takes ... More >>
Strike Action
Monday, 6 November 2023, 3:52 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Following a vote from NZEI Te Riu Roa members, NZEI advised on 16 October to all employers party to the Early Childhood Education Collective Agreement 2023 (ECECA), that a strike will take place. This affects around 100 Early Childhood Centres whose ... More >>
Smaller Class Sizes Will Genuinely Put Tamariki At Centre Of Education
Monday, 11 September 2023, 5:29 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Smaller class sizes are one of the most important steps we can make to improve learning in primary schools, NZEI Te Riu Roa said today off the back of a Ministerial Advisory Group Reviewing School Staffing announcement. NZEI Te Riu Roa president Mark Potter ... More >>
Teachers, Not Politicians, Should Decide Teaching Strategies, Education Union Says
Sunday, 10 September 2023, 9:46 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The president of NZEI Te Riu Roa, Mark Potter, says the National Party’s new education policy requiring all schools and all teachers to teach literacy in the same way ignores the importance of the professional judgement teachers make daily about what works ... More >>
Area School Teachers Vote To Accept New Collective Agreement
Sunday, 20 August 2023, 8:23 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Area school teachers have voted to accept the latest Ministry of Education collective agreement offer. The offer followed prolonged campaigning by area school teacher members, including participation in the largest education strike in New Zealand history ... More >>
Early Childhood Sector Fair Pay Agreement Process Gets Go Ahead
Monday, 19 June 2023, 4:54 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The early childhood sector is set to embark on the next steps in their Fair Pay Agreement process which will set minimum pay and conditions for over 35,000 workers. A Fair Pay Agreement would explicitly set minimum conditions and pay for a sector ... More >>
Schools Face Leadership Crisis Over Next Five Years
Monday, 12 June 2023, 10:33 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Nearly half of new primary school principals intend to leave their role in the next five years, a new survey by NZEI Te Riu Roa has found. The findings of a Principal Sentiment Snapshot survey are being released at the union’s Educational Leadership ... More >>
Primary School Teachers Accept 4th Collective Agreement Offer
Wednesday, 7 June 2023, 8:12 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Primary teachers have voted to accept the latest Ministry of Education collective agreement offer. This was the fourth offer put to teachers and follows a long negotiation campaign which included the largest education strike in this country’s history. ... More >>
Union Dismayed By Mayor's Proposal To Cut ECE
Thursday, 1 June 2023, 5:06 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa, New Zealand’s largest education union, was dismayed and surprised by Mayor Wayne Brown’s decision to insist on cuts to provision of early childhood education in his proposed budget. NZEI Te Riu Roa early childhood representative, ... More >>
Outcome Of Primary Teacher Industrial Action Ballot
Monday, 22 May 2023, 7:03 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa primary teacher members have endorsed two industrial actions, in a ballot which closed this evening. The actions endorsed by members in the ballot which ran from last Thursday to today are a one-day strike on Wednesday 31 May AND ... More >>
Disappointing Budget For Primary Educators
Thursday, 18 May 2023, 5:41 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa, the largest education union in Aotearoa, says that this year’s Budget has disappointed primary educators. It is the second year in a row that school funding has not kept pace with CPI, and there are no investments in teacher pay, ... More >>
Big Steps For Our Smallest Citizens
Thursday, 18 May 2023, 5:31 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa, the country’s largest education union, welcomes the $1.8 billion investment in Budget 2023 to fund full pay parity for early childhood education (ECE) teachers and the extension of 20hrs free ECE to all 2-year-olds. Geena Fagan, an ... More >>
Area School Teachers To Vote On Move To Industrial Action In Term 2
Wednesday, 26 April 2023, 4:51 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Area school teachers across the country will vote on whether to move to industrial action this term, including taking rolling strikes, says NZEI Te Riu Roa, New Zealand’s largest education union. Area school teachers have only had one offer which was back ... More >>
Principals Stand Strong At The Start Of Term As After Hours Work Ban Begins
Monday, 24 April 2023, 5:02 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Primary and area school principals begin a two-month work ban starting 8am Monday 24 April, the first day of term two. The work ban includes a pause on all Ministerial work that principals normally do, such as implementing the Curriculum Refresh, or ... More >>
Kindergarten Teachers Striking For Better Conditions
Sunday, 12 March 2023, 2:57 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
For the first time ever, kindergarten teachers are joining their primary and secondary colleagues in strike action. This historic occasion will bring 50,000 educators together on 16 March across the motu to show they’re serious about needing change. Kindergarten ... More >>
30,000 Teachers To Strike On 16 March
Friday, 10 March 2023, 6:18 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Around 30,000 primary school teachers and principals, kindergarten teachers and area school teachers and principals have voted to take strike action on Thursday 16 March. NZEI Te Riu Roa members last week rejected a second offer from the Ministry ... More >>
Educators Move To Strike Ballot After Second Offer Rejected
Saturday, 4 March 2023, 8:52 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Around 30,000 principals and teachers from schools and kindergartens across Aotearoa will begin a ballot for industrial action tomorrow (Saturday) after they overwhelmingly rejected offers from the Ministry of Education to settle their collective employment ... More >>
NZEI Te Riu Roa Educators To Discuss Employment Offer, Further Action
Sunday, 26 February 2023, 3:15 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
26 February 2023 Tens of thousands of teachers will begin a week-long series of union meetings across the motu from Monday to vote whether to accept their latest collective agreement offers. NZEI Te Riu Roa members covered by the kindergarten ... More >>
NZEI Te Riu Roa Welcomes Jan Tinetti As New Minister Of Education
Wednesday, 1 February 2023, 12:49 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa President Mark Potter has welcomed the elevation of Jan Tinetti to be the new Minister for Education and is looking forward to working with her to ensure the Government remains committed to making positive systemic change in the ... More >>
