By Alana Mazzoni For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 02:59 BST, 19 June 2019 | Updated: 04:27 BST, 19 June 2019
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Preschool teachers with university degrees are demanding $101,767 salaries, saying they're underpaid because they work in a female-dominated industry.
The Independent Education Union is pushing for pay rises of up to 49 per cent for their most experienced members.
The Union believes experienced preschool teachers should paid the same as primary school educators, who have the same university degrees.
But the Australian Childcare Alliance argues that if the case is successful, preschool teachers will be making the same as doctors and childcare costs will skyrocket.
Preschool teachers with university degrees are demanding salaries of over $100,000, saying they're underpaid because it's a female-dominated industry
'If we're successful it will be a very significant case legally, and it will also have a major impact on our early childhood teacher members,' IEU Assistant Secretary Carol Matthews told The Age.
The IEU argues that early childhood teachers have similar
