Following months of negotiations, thousands of school staff will strike this Monday over a new pay deal breaking down.
There have been several protests, strike actions and work bans two months prior to the statewide strike due to rising frustrations over school staff being the lowest-paid public sector workers.
Union Secretary, Alex Scott, argues “it is not acceptable that a Labor government should expect the lowest-paid public sector workers to be stuck on the award safety net when every other Queensland public sector worker has been offered collective agreements which raise their salaries above the award”.