Queensland Teachers Union - Recent Activity

Recent Activity

In 2010 the QTU, along with other Australian teacher unions, campaigned against the federal government's My School website, which publishes the NAPLAN test performance of schools and provides comparisons between schools.

In 2009, QTU members staged a national strike, the union's first in nine years, in support of a campaign for a salary increase.

In 2008, QTU members in remote areas of Queensland took strike action over what they regarded as the poor standard of housing supplied by The Department of Education and Training.

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