Education Minister Prue Car has sought to calm tensions between the NSW Teachers Federation and the Minns government by saying a 2.5 per cent pay offer after a big first-year wage increases could change.
NSW Education Minister Prue Car has sought to head off an increasingly hostile pay fight with the state’s teachers, urging them to accept what she called a “huge” wage offer and indicating the government is open to negotiating higher increases in the later years of the proposed deal.
But Car, who is both the education minister and deputy premier, has sought to calm tensions between the two parties, saying the 2.5 per cent offer was only ever “indicative” and that the later years of the deal remained “up for negotiation”. “This is actually quite a big moment and I’m actually quite proud of the first-year offer,” she said.
But she revealed the second, third and fourth year offer remained up for negotiation and depended on what the new government’s wages policy would be.
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