Guidelines on Physical Contact with Children
NZEI has released its new guidelines on physical contact with children, to assist its members who work as teachers and support staff in schools and early childhood education centres. You can read our media release or download a PDF of the Guidelines.
Support Staff Recruitment
11,500 support staff belong to NZEI and membership is growing. However, another 10,000 support staff don't belong to the union.
This is a problem for all support staff. Only by having as many support staff as possible join the union will you have the strength to make the Government, the Ministry of Education and the school trustees, start taking support staff seriously.
Every member that joins increases your strength, and makes it harder for them to resist your claims in the negotiations. And to resist your calls for a fairer and more effective funding system.
The single most important thing you can do to improve your pay and working conditions, is to persude a support staff colleague, who is not a member of NZEI to join the union.
Click here to download a membership form.
For a leaflet that tells you what support staff gain by joining NZEI click here
For a leaflet that will help your to persuade a support staff colleague to join NZEI click here
Support Staff Newsletters
ADC Support Staff Network Newsletter June 2008
ADC Support Staff Network Newsletter May 2008
ADC Support Staff Network Newsletter April 2008
ADC Support Staff Network Newsletter February 2008
Fix It Now
Read all about the Support Staff Campaign for a Fairer Funding System