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(1) Poor salaries and conditions are not new. Why did the teachers not strike during the nine years of the National government when matters were getting progressively worse?
Why only now when they have a government that agrees with their demands but has not got the money to meet them without cutting back on other services?
(2) Government has met some of their conditions, most to roll out over the next four years, but teachers have demanded more. Where do they think the money should come from?
By cutting spending on other other social services — health, welfare, housing, preventing crime, and cutting environmental pollution; by inreasing taxes, or by increasing public debt? Most people would rule out cuts to social services; business has already spoken out about increasing taxation, and wouldn't National have a great time criticising increased public debt?
The situation is exacerbated by our short parliamentary terms. Policies barely have time to be floated before it's time to prepare for the next election when no government would introduce policies that would cost them votes, no matter how necessary the policies may be.
(3) Teachers are promising future strikes and Government has said it does not have the money to improve its offer.
How will this impasse be broken?
I hope the NZEI and PPTA will reconsider their demands, dividing them into what they can reasonably expect from Government in the immediate future, and what they want over the four-year period. There are no fundamental differences between the two parties. They both want the same things for education. The only difference is the timing.
-- ACW
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