PHOTO: Members of the NSW Teachers Federation have been taking industrial action for over a year. (Supplied)
Years of striking and negotiating has come to a head for NSW teachers, who will become the highest paid teachers in Australia after shaking hands with the NSW Government on a new agreement.
Commencing next term, the starting salary for a NSW teacher will increase by almost $10 thousand to $85,000, with the salary for a top-scale teacher increasing from $113,042 to $122,100.
The new agreement is expected to help tackle the statewide teacher shortage, something that teachers in the union have attributed to undervalued salaries and unachievable workloads…