Producer: Rosalee Chapman
The Queensland Teachers Union (QTU) held their first strike in over 15 years in August of this year, where thousands of teachers across the state walked out of their classrooms in protest.
The strike came as a result of a stalemate between the Queensland Government and the union, with teachers demanding better pay, safer classrooms, and solutions to chronic staff shortages and excessive workloads.
Reporter Rosalee Chapman examines what we can learn from this strike, and how collective action can be leveraged as bargaining power.
Featured in this story: Harlee Nightingale, local teacher; Anna Hogan, Associate Professor in the School of Education at the Queensland University of Technology.