Our revised log of claims
Nation leading pay
- Ensure that CIT Educators are the highest paid TAFE educators in the country.Â
- Salary increases must ensure AEU members see real-terms wage growth every year of the agreement.Â
- Continue working towards pay-parity with teachers in ACT public schools.Â
- Ensure no financial disadvantage to educators moving from ACT public schools into CITÂ
Value, recognise, and remunerate expertise
- Pay rates/allowances should be at least comparable, if not better than, the relevant industry standardÂ
- Streamline processes for accessing paid time to maintain industry currencyÂ
- Streamline process for accessing paid time for professional developmentÂ
- Aim to have managers (HoDs and College Directors) working in their area of expertise, or if that’s not practicable, ensure managers undertake professional learning to develop relevant skills and understandingsÂ
- Ensure mandatory backfilling of staff on long-term leaveÂ
- Improve processes for engagement of casual educators and ensure pay rates genuinely reflect the amount of work to be undertaken Â
Improve workload
- Provide student free days (one per term) for quality, educator-led collaboration, planning and preparation (that count towards teaching load/annualised hours)Â
- Continue the workload piloting provisionsÂ
- Reassess the Direct Teaching Activity (720 hours) provisions in relation to:Â
- Timely payment of overtimeÂ
- Sustainable and collaborative management of workload throughout the yearÂ
- Defining what counts towards hours and what work attracts a reduction of those hoursÂ
- Clarify paid non-attendance, and who it applies toÂ
- Adequate admin, technical, IT, and student support for departments, HoDs and College Directors
- Paid time for sub-branch representatives to perform their duties as an elected representativeÂ
Ensure a psychologically and physically safe workplace
- Provide physical, technical and human resources to promote safetyÂ
- Provide training that supports educators to support students safely (e.g. training around occupational violence and supporting students with additional needs)Â
- Clarify job descriptions for Educators, EDS, HoDs and College DirectorsÂ
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CIT Bargaining 2025 Revised Log of Claims Survey
2023 CIT Bargaining: A landmark bargaining round, but much is still to be done.
The 2023 to 2026 CIT Educators Enterprise Agreement was a milestone achievement.
AEU members at CIT had been shouldering a heavy burden through Covid, and this only became worse when a scandal involving the former CEO and a mountaineer consultant engulfed the organisation. With an interim CEO and largely new management team, it had fallen to teachers to keep things running.
After months of negotiations, we had made some inroad on key workload questions, but CIT remained unwilling to depart from the whole-of-government pay offer. The AEU’s TAFE membership increased by 25% in the space of a couple of weeks. For the first time in decades, CIT members voted to take strike action in support of their pay and working conditions.
CIT’s resolve quickly crumbled in the face of organised action from the workforce. They came back to us with a revised offer that would move CIT teachers towards pay parity with our school-based colleagues and ensure that starting pay at CIT would be over $100,000, making us the first TAFE to achieve this milestone.
While members acknowledged the victory, they did so in the knowledge that there is more work to be done. Our union can achieve another landmark deal, but only if we are strong and united.