The NSW Lecturers Federation faces potential court-ordered penalties due to widespread strikes in Might searching for higher pay and situations in public colleges.
In a lawsuit, the NSW Division of Training accuses the union of breaching orders made by the NSW Industrial Relations Fee in November final yr ordering it to chorus from additional industrial motion.
Based on paperwork filed within the NSW Supreme Courtroom, the IRC’s orders prohibited the union from participating in deliberate strike motion in December and any additional protests till Might 31 this yr.
The Might strikes had been the second 24-hour industrial motion taken in six months to stress the state authorities to spice up pay situations for lecturers.
The federal government contends the union contravened the IRC’s orders in a lot of respects, together with encouraging its members to strike on Might 4, and urging members to stroll out of faculties visited by native state MPs round that point.
The lawsuit alleges that round 450 colleges had been non-operational because of the strike, which noticed over 45,000 union members take part. On the day, nearly 90 per cent of public faculty college students additionally didn’t attend.
The Lecturers Federation has been approached for remark.
