{"id":125228,"date":"2025-08-07T02:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125228\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T02:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:53:11","slug":"brisbane-news-live-updates-state-and-teachers-return-to-the-bargaining-table-441m-maintenance-backlog-in-state-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125228\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane news LIVE updates: State and teachers return to the bargaining table | $441m maintenance backlog in state schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

After more than 4000 teachers marched through Brisbane\u2019s CBD yesterday to demand an improved pay offer, the department and union are returning to the bargaining table in the Industrial Court of Queensland.<\/p>\n

Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek said the state was prepared to return to the table, overseen by the Industrial Relations Commission, to tweak its last offer to the Queensland Teachers\u2019 Union.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s appropriate that we\u2019re going to sit down with this independent umpire to continue our offer \u2014 to enhance the offer that we have made,\u201d Langbroek said.<\/p>\n

\"Teachers<\/p>\n

Teachers march over the Victoria Bridge on Wednesday.Credit: Brisbane Times \/ Catherine Strohfeldt<\/p>\n

He said the state had already been \u201cdealing with\u201d issues faced by teachers, particularly violence in classrooms and school yards, through funding agreements introduced to tackle bullying and reduce teachers\u2019 administrative load.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re continuing to address issues that many teachers have expressed concern about yesterday\u2026 making sure with all of those things together, that we can improve those conditions,\u201d Langbroek said.<\/p>\n

He said the state was prepared to sweeten its offer, but would not be drawn on what conditions might be added to the deal, or whether the government would increase its pay offer of 8 per cent over three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After more than 4000 teachers marched through Brisbane\u2019s CBD yesterday to demand an improved pay offer, the department…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-125228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114985225771577339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}