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Reports and Updates
The Pay Parity Campaign was launched on 1st October 2019.
What you can do
ECE Pay Parity Book
Print or download a copy of the ECE Pay Parity Book 
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Share the book with colleagues and friends, the online link to the book is: https://www.childforum.com/reports/1772-teacher-pay-parity-campaign.html
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Petition
Click here for the petition
Please encourage all teachers, parents, whānau and the wider community to sign this petition.
Go to: https://our.actionstation.org.nz/p/ece-parity
Posters
Print and display copies and post to your social media pages
"Support Early Childhood Teachers"
"We are teachers not babysitters"
Postcards
Print, sign and send this postcard to the Associate Minister of Education
Print, sign and send this postcard to the Minister of Education Chris Hipkins
Print, sign and send this postcard to the Green Party Education spokesperson
Print, sign and send this postcard to the National Party ECE spokesperson
If you don’t believe you can make a difference the best thing you can do is make a start. You can help by doing even just one of the above things. Together we can make what might seem to be impossible - possible.
To summarise in just 3 paragraphs - or 'in a nutshell'
It is critically important for the children attending early childhood education (ECE) services that the pay of all early childhood education teachers is on par with their kindergarten, primary and secondary peers.
Without pay parity qualified teachers will continue to leave the profession and the health, safety, and learning of children will suffer. Even when teachers stay in the sector, when they are disillusioned because of poor remuneration and overworked for the pay that they get, they can withdraw and disengage from children and from their work
For the government to provide the funding needed for pay parity they will need assurance that the taxpayers' dollars are being applied effectively to achieve the government's goals. There will need to be transparency around services' funding, to prove that pay parity is gained and that quality is achieved.
Teacher Pay Parity Book
Get your copy here: ECE Teacher Pay Parity Book
PREFACE
1. The Lead-Up to the Campaign for Pay Parity
2. The Problem
2.1. Having a qualified workforce brings with it demands for higher wages reflective of qualification and professional status
2.2. Teachers are subsidising ECE
2.3. Current pay levels
2.4. Why would anyone want to spend a lot of time and money to become a qualified teacher and work in ECE today?
2.5. Slippage in the quality of ECE has become a serious worry
2.6. Current methods and policy are failing
3. The Solution
3.1. Improve salary attestation rates
3.2. Make sure funding for pay parity results in pay parity
4. What Cannot Help as Much as We Might Want to Believe
4.1. Joining a union
4.2. The Government’s 10-year ECE strategic plan
4.3. The re-introduction of a funding band for 100% qualified and certificated teachers and the exacerbation of inequity
5. A Teacher is a Teacher
5.1. Why lower pay is not about gender or work role
5.2. Where is NZEI Te Riu Roa on campaigning for pay parity?
5.3. Are kindergartens fundamentally different to other services in ECE?
6. Summary
7. Concluding Comment
APPENDICES
1. Salary attestation rates
2. Pay parity rates
3. Kindergarten teacher working conditions
4. Current funding rates by service type
5. Glossary
Funding and accountability concerns
- Anna Ryder - Service owner: "We pay our teachers above MoE rates and would love to pay our teachers more"
- How much funding is too much to go on management salaries and profit instead of on children and teacher salaries?
- Cost Analysis: Can centres afford to pay teachers more?
- Hugo van Stratum - Recently retired teacher: "Pay disparity, profit making, fair treatment and advocacy for a unified pay scale"
Sector Survey
Thought pieces on the effects of low pay on teachers and exploitation
- Bethany O'Hagan - Centre Supervisor: "Ask an early childhood teacher why there is a teacher shortage and we can tell you"
- Ways to Stop the Exploitation of Teachers Working in ECE
- Unqualified staff in teaching positions are being expected to take on the work of qualified teaching staff often for minimum or little more than minimum pay
- Karen Girvan - Teacher: "The pay realities for teachers when moving from a kindergarten setting into another community ECE setting"
- Janet Dixon - ECE expert: "Investing in teachers is investing in children - our future leaders"
The differences between 'Pay Equity' x and 'Pay Parity' ♥
- Like chalk and cheese: Pay Equity and Pay Parity an analysis of different paths to get better wages and conditions
- David Haynes: ECE Teachers - Pay Parity or Pay Equity?
NZEI's ill-thought out 11% wage jolt plan
- Misleading: NZEI’s claim it can deliver an immediate 11% pay increase to all ECE teachers
- NZEI’s 11% Campaign – It Sounds Great, but What’s Inside the Package?
Watch Video
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- Why do we need to pay ECE teachers a fair wage? An interview with Irish expert Dr Mary Moloney
- Part 1 of the national meeting on ECE Teacher Pay in Wellington, July 2019
- Part 2 of the national meeting on ECE Teacher Pay in Wellington, July 2019
- Tips for service providers on responding to the teacher shortage and how to reduce the impact of this on their operation
- Video collection
