Opinion
Finance Minister Bill English says secondary teachers should not waste their time today trying to persuade Education Minister Anne Tolley they should get a 4 per cent pay rise.
"There is no point wasting time on the minister - the minister has got no money," he told the Herald yesterday.
"But more importantly she's not the audience they have to persuade."
They had to explain to nurses, civil servants, police, firemen and doctors why secondary teachers were worth more than twice as much as them for a pay increase.
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