Teacher strike action - rostering home

Dear parents and caregivers,

Teacher strike action - rostering home

The PPTA has informed us of their planned strike action this coming week. The Macleans College Board have been advised by the PPTA that member teachers will refuse to teach certain year groups.

The union refer to this as “rostering home” and it involves teachers who are union members refusing to teach certain year levels on a given day.

We have an insufficient number of non-union staff to be able to provide safe and suitable relief cover to the students of the classes that union members are refusing to teach. This means that students will be rostered home on the day union members refuse to teach that year level.

Below is the schedule and the day on which each year level is to stay at home:

Tuesday 14 October - Year 9 
Wednesday 15 October - Year 10 
Thursday 16 October - Year 11 and Year 12
Friday 17 October - Year 13        

Students of all other year levels are to come to school as normal and CIE examinations will continue as normal.

On the rostering home day, students who have inadequate safe supervision at home may come to school and study in the library.

Yours sincerely,

Steven Hargreaves
Principal