Universities bargaining

The first two days of negotiations for the nationwide universities collective employment agreement will take place this week on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 July.”  Hopefully you have already received an email with more information about what is going on, what you need to do and the agreed claims. If not you can visit our Stand as One Universities Negotiations 09 webpage for all the details.

Send a message of support to your negotiating team at our online forum.

ITP MECA Negotiations

The stopwork meetings that we notified ITP members at Wintec, WITT, Unitec, Whitireia, NorthTec and BoPP about last week have been postponed.”  The TEU negotiating team will now be meeting with employer representatives on July 30.”  Meanwhile negotiations are continuing at EIT, Tairawhiti,” NMIT, and Awanuiarangi.

Have your say at our online forum.

Pay Equity petition

Have you signed a copy of the pay equity petition? What about friends and colleagues at your workplace? Print off a copy and send back to TEU women’s officer Suzanne McNabb, PO Box 11-767 Wellington by 14 August 2009.

Tea for Burmese working women

The CTU Women’s council is selling” gift packs of Anisa tea for to support the Burmese Women’s Empowerment Project only” $20 plus postage and packaging. The project is supporting and organising migrant and refugee Burmese women workers” along the Thai border of Burma. The gift pack includes” three packs of tea”  – 200 grams of Scent of Bergamot (Earl Grey), 200 g of English Breeze and 100 g of Persian Tradition Premier Blend. You can see a photo of the tea here. To buy a gift-pack” of tea for only $20 plus P&P contact Suzanne http://scr.im/suzannem or 04 801 5098