Every teacher knows this reality: it’s 3.30pm, students have left and you face a mountain of work that can’t be done in the time available. Reports, parent emails, data entry, compliance requirements.

All financial members are welcome to attend an Association meeting; they are not just for Fed Reps. Our meetings are friendly and relaxed, with everyone being able to contribute.

All financial members are welcome to attend an Association meeting; they are not just for Fed Reps. Our meetings are friendly and relaxed, with everyone being able to contribute.

Federation Acknowledges the Gadigal People of the Eora nation, the Traditional Custodians of the Land on which this website was produced. The union pays respect to ...

Federation is deeply saddened and concerned at the level of human suffering and pain being experienced by communities in Israel and Palestine, and naturally, by their loved ones across the world. We ...

Federation is a proud sponsor of Refugee Week 2025, which has the theme Finding Freedom: Diversity in Community. With this focus, the week is dedicated to emphasising the vital role community plays in ...

Our mental health is not for sale. The NSW Treasurer has proposed extreme changes to the workers compensation system. Workers are coming together to protest these unfair changes – see below for rally ...

It’s official. The Heads of Agreement poised to make beginning and top-of-scale school teachers the nation’s best paid – and deliver increases to all others – has been signed. “This is an historic ...

New figures show NSW public schools have the highest number of students per teacher in the country. The Australian Bureau of Statistics figures reveal NSW had 14.2 students per teacher in 2022, more ...

Escalating workloads, uncompetitive salaries and significant teacher shortages had combined to create a crisis in NSW public education, according to the findings of an eminent panel’s inquiry into the ...

The number of teachers resigning from NSW public schools has doubled in two years as unsustainable workloads and uncompetitive salaries take their toll. Leaked Department of Education figures also ...

The NSW Teachers Federation has condemned Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Shadow Education Minister Sarah Henderson’s plans to abolish free TAFE, a program that has provided vital vocational ...