In each preschool all staff including directors, teachers and early childhood workers work together as a team to provide high quality education for children.
As a team, they share common interests in job security, working conditions, career development and salary justice. These common interests are best protected and improved by the AEU which works exclusively in the education industry. As a large and effective union, we are able to protect and improve your conditions and pay.
Recent gains for Early Childhood members
- Increased permanency for teachers, early childhood workers and school services officers.
- Substantial salary increases for all preschool employees through Enterprise Bargaining.
- Maintenance of early childhood leadership positions
- Increased leadership administration time
- Country incentives for preschool teachers and directors
- Increased national recognition of early childhood education
- Six weeks paid maternity and adoption leave for preschool employees.
- Early Childhood Consultative Committee
The Early Childhood Consultative Committee is a group of fifteen elected annually. The Committee provides information and advice to AEU Branch Executive on matters which affect members working in early childhood settings. The Committee is representative of the members who work in country and metropolitan Preschools, Child Parent Centres and junior Primary Schools.
Articles
- SSO/ECW Week Cocktail Hour
It's time to have some fun, catch up with friends and celebrate the great gains SSOs and ECWs have won over the last year. > Read more
- Conversion to permanency for ECWs
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false To be eligible for conversion to permanency in Term 4 this year, ECWs must meet certain criteria. > Read more
- Stage 2 Arbitration Decision summary for Early Childhood Educators
Both parts of the Arbitrated Decision have resulted in some very significant gains for preschool members. > Read more
- Early Childhood issues addressed in AEU submission
The AEU has made a submission to the National Professional Standards for Teachers Consultation. Included in the submission is a section on Early Childhood Education. > Read more
- New PSD 4 Classification for preschool directors
The AEU has been successful in arguing for the creation of a new PSD 4 level classification for Preschool Directors in a number of our more complex sites. > Read more
- AEU monitoring Universal Access roll-out
The allocation of additional resources provided as part of the Federal Government’s Universal Access initiative continues to roll out in Category 1 preschools and child parent centres. > Read more
- Early childhood positions will go with amalgamations
The current allocation of state funding to the expansion of amalgamations and closures under Education Works stage 2 will be finalised at the end of June. > Read more
- New body to oversee national Early Childhood Development Strategy
During 2009, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreed to a wide-ranging package of reforms for early childhood. > Read more
- Opinion piece: Starting School in SA
In this opinion piece, Jean Horan Kindergarten teacher Theresa Golin asks if children would be better placed for the future if they spend more time in Reception. > Read more