On Thursday 20 September Instrumental Music Services members are withdrawing their goodwill and are refusing to use their private vehicles to travel to schools.
The Commissioner for Public Employment has advised that public sector employees cannot be compelled to use private vehicles for work purposes. The Acting Chief Executive at her meeting with AEU President Andrew Gohl and Organisers Group Coordinator Bill Hignett on 18 September 2007 confirmed that employees could not be compelled to use their private vehicles.
Gohl and Hignett today attended the two IMS branch offices at Dover Gardens and Klemzig to ensure that there were no high jinks by DECS Officers to undermine this action.
In an attempt to scuttle action by IMS teachers, an email was sent after 4pm yesterday telling the teachers to report to the school they will be teaching at tomorrow.
The advice the AEU have given to the teachers is that they are to report to their base which in the metropolitan area is either the Dover Gardens or Klemzig Office and to ask for a government car or taxi chits to travel to their schools.
This withdrawal of IMS teacher goodwill follows two successful rallies outside the offices of DECS in Flinders Street (photos above and below).
Yesterday’s rally began with an instrumental version of the Simon and Garfunkel classic Mrs Robinson (DECS CEO’s surname is Robinson), ended with a sing-along to a rewrite of Paul Kelly’s Special Treatment.
The Commissioner for Public Employment has advised that public sector employees cannot be compelled to use private vehicles for work purposes. The Acting Chief Executive at her meeting with AEU President Andrew Gohl and Organisers Group Coordinator Bill Hignett on 18 September 2007 confirmed that employees could not be compelled to use their private vehicles.
Gohl and Hignett today attended the two IMS branch offices at Dover Gardens and Klemzig to ensure that there were no high jinks by DECS Officers to undermine this action.
In an attempt to scuttle action by IMS teachers, an email was sent after 4pm yesterday telling the teachers to report to the school they will be teaching at tomorrow.
The advice the AEU have given to the teachers is that they are to report to their base which in the metropolitan area is either the Dover Gardens or Klemzig Office and to ask for a government car or taxi chits to travel to their schools.
This withdrawal of IMS teacher goodwill follows two successful rallies outside the offices of DECS in Flinders Street (photos above and below).
Yesterday’s rally began with an instrumental version of the Simon and Garfunkel classic Mrs Robinson (DECS CEO’s surname is Robinson), ended with a sing-along to a rewrite of Paul Kelly’s Special Treatment.
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