{"id":18134,"date":"2022-09-07T17:06:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T17:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=18134"},"modified":"2022-09-07T17:06:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T17:06:50","slug":"greens-back-early-childhood-workers-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/09\/07\/greens-back-early-childhood-workers-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens back early childhood workers\u2019 shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Greens Deputy Leader and spokesperson for education, has backed the early childhood educators action to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bigsteps.org.au\/\">Shut Down the Sector<\/a>&nbsp;on Early Childhood Educator\u2019s Day today and urged the Albanese government to act on wages and workforce shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senator Faruqi said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Greens are right with early childhood educators as they shut down the sector today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe low pay and difficult conditions early childhood educators are subjected to are a national shame. Educators deserve professional pay that reflects the skill and responsibility of the work they do every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cParliament needs to hear these workers\u2019 calls for an immediate pay rise. Early childhood educators, who we know are predominantly women, have been taken for granted for far too long. They\u2019ve had enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Greens call on the government to bring legislation to lift wages, fix conditions and deal with the critical workforce shortage in early learning and care. These steps, hand in hand with the Greens&#8217; plan for free early learning and care for all, are vital to building a better future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Greens Deputy Leader and spokesperson for education, has backed the early childhood educators action to&nbsp;Shut Down the Sector&nbsp;on Early Childhood Educator\u2019s Day today and urged the Albanese government to act on wages and workforce shortages. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThe Greens are right with early childhood educators as they shut down the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/09\/07\/greens-back-early-childhood-workers-shutdown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens back early childhood workers\u2019 shutdown&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18135,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18134\/revisions\/18135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}