20 Aug 2025

High schools close as secondary teachers go on strike

From Checkpoint, 5:17 pm on 20 August 2025

Members of the secondary teachers' union swapped classrooms for picket lines today. The one-day strike closed many schools as the Post Primary Teachers Association tried to pressure the government into improving its pay offer. But the government has said the union was too quick to go to a strike, and the bargaining seats were barely warm when they called it. Education correspondent, John Gerritsen reports.