Catholic schools could join teacher strike as wage cap pressure grows
NSW private school teachers have promised to join their public counterparts in industrial action for 5 per cent pay rises, ratcheting up pressure on state wage caps in the face of low wage growth and rising inflation.
The NSW government confirmed the state’s first public school strike in a decade had shut down 383 out of 2200 public schools on Tuesday and estimated as many as 550,000 students did not attend school.
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