Nearly 3000 members in 55 schools in the Logan-Albert Beaudesert region undertook stop-work action over the week, with more than 99 per cent voting in favour of holding another mass meeting in Term 1, 2009 to plan further action if the State Government failed to commit to additional resources.

QTU members in other areas strongly supported their action, as evidenced by the messages of support and encouragement posted on the Meeting the Challenge web noticeboard.

In an historic agreement between the non-state school sector and the State Government, Education and Training Minister Rod Welford today committed a greater share of State Government funding to Queensland’s most needy non-state schools in 2009. 

Irony of the annoucement and the timing not lost on QTU members.

Realities of life in complex schools highlighted 

Queensland Teachers' Journal, Vol.31 No.6 August 2008, p12-13

Disappointed Logan teachers back stop-work action to force a better deal for the state’s most complex schools, in the wake of a disappointing state budget announcement which showed that the state government is not listening to QTU members in complex schools and found no real additional money for those most in need

Logan City teachers take to the airwaves to explain the QTU’s Meeting the Challenge campaign

 The campaign kicks off in Logan

 Queensland Teachers' Journal Vol 31, no.2, 14 March 2008,p.6

The Meeting the Challenge campaign launched

Queensland Teachers' Journal, Vol. 31, no1,Feb 2008