{"id":15019,"date":"2025-09-17T05:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15019"},"modified":"2025-09-17T05:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:25:12","slug":"primary-school-teachers-to-strike-for-full-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15019","title":{"rendered":"Primary school teachers to strike for full day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The union for primary school teachers has confirmed its members will strike for a day next month.<\/p>\n<p>The vote for industrial action follows the union&#8217;s rejection of an offer of a pay rise between 2.7 &#8211; 4.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes amid rolling strikes for secondary school teachers this week.<\/p>\n<p>Union negotiation lead Liam Rutherford said primary teachers, principals, school support and specialist staff will strike on 23 October.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Service Commissioner has said its offer was fair, fiscally responsible and met the the cost-of-living pressures.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The union for primary school teachers has confirmed its members will strike for a day next month. The vote for industrial action follows the union&#8217;s rejection of an offer of a pay rise between 2.7 &#8211; 4.6 percent. The decision comes amid rolling strikes for secondary school teachers this week. Union negotiation lead Liam Rutherford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15021,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15019\/revisions\/15021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}