The Liberal Government is getting on with the job Tasmanians elected us to do and fixing the Budget mess.
The Labor-Green legacy is $1.1 billion in cumulative deficits, net debt rising to $400 million and 1,000 embedded job cuts.
When we raised the pay freeze, the unions campaigned against it. When we announced we had found alternative savings, the unions' called for a pay freeze.
The unions have played politics with their members' jobs and now they are bringing families into their political point scoring with Thursday's strike action.
In 2011, Labor cut double what we're proposing to save and at the same time they announced plans to forcibly close 20 schools.
What was the unions' response to this? A letter and a threat to donate less to the Labor party in future. Labor tried to cut schools and the unions wrote them a cheque.
Under the Liberal Government, teachers will get at least one pay rise this year, schools will get increased allocation through the Fairer Funding model component of their resource packages and the education budget is the biggest it's ever been and in response, the unions are going on strike.
Unions may be hell-bent on industrial action at any cost but the fact is not a single teaching job would have been lost if they'd agreed to a pay freeze.
We are now getting on with the job and we will not be deterred by the unions.