The Fair Work Commissionincreased the minimum wage by 5.2 per cent on Wednesday and the Reserve Bank forecast inflation would rise to 7 per cent by the end of the year.
“Whilst theNSW teachers’ union sought to capitalise on positive public sentiment and teacher shortages,waging a campaign of strikes,you have denied us our right to strike,as we had previously voted to do,and delivered us the weakest EBA[enterprise bargaining agreement] we can remember receiving,” the letter continued.
“We would actually be in a perfect position to bargain harder since there is an election coming up in November and the state government will not want to go to an election with an unresolved wage dispute with teachers still active.”
Among the signatories is Kew High School literacy specialist Dr Karen Lynch,who said she was so dismayed about the agreement that she was walking away from the union after 20 years.