Wednesday 29 June 2022 10:00 PM Sydney Trains delayed or cancelled amid industrial dispute trends now
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NSW public and private school teachers are striking for 24 hours over staff shortages and pay, while the rail union pushes on with its own industrial action.
Thousands of teachers are expected to descend on Sydney's CBD on Thursday, angry at a NSW budget that offered no more than a 3.5 per cent pay rise.
It's the third strike in six months called by the NSW Teachers Federation and Independent Education Union NSW/ACT, representing 85,000 teachers.
The strike is expected to affect about a million families with classes cancelled on Thursday, just a day before a two-week school break.
'We have a crisis in the form of a teacher shortage, a crisis that is the government's own making,' NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos told reporters on Wednesday.
The NSW government has agreed to spend $264 million on train safety modifications to end a dispute with unions, but industrial action by drivers will continue
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