Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 25 Ministry of Education statistics show the average surplus as a percentage of revenue at public tertiary education providers climbing dramatically from 1.9 percent in 2006 to 5.2 percent last year. In 2006 public tertiary education providers made a combined surplus of $66 million on revenue of [...]

The employers at the five Ready2Go polytechnics (Whitireia, Wintec, BOPP, Unitec and NorthTec) have now finally agreed that they are indeed ‘ready to go’ and have agreed dates to negotiate with their respective TEU members. The first, Whitireia begins negotiations tomorrow (Friday) and the last gets underway on 3 August. Weltec has [...]

7th July 2011 Office of the Ombudsman PO Box 10 -152 The Terrace Wellington   Dear Sir/Madam On 6th May 2011 the TEU wrote to chief executives at five institutes of technology/polytechnics with whom we have been engaged in bargaining for a multi-employer collective agreement [Northtec Polytechnic, UNITEC, Bay of [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 23 The five polytechnics that have, until last week, refused to negotiate site-based collective agreements with their staff members have also so far refused official information requests to disclose how much money they are spending on legal fees and consultants in their efforts to avoid negotiations. [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 22 The Court of Appeal ruled yesterday that five polytechnics must bargain site-based collective agreements with their staff members who are union members. The five polytechnics – NorthTec, Unitec, Wintec, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and Whitireia – had refused to bargain site-based agreements after union [...]

Media Release Tertiary Education Union 22 June 2011 The Court of Appeal ruled today that five polytechnics must bargain site-based collective agreements with their staff members who are union members. The five polytechnics – NorthTec, Unitec, Wintec, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and Whitireia – had refused to bargain site-based agreements [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 21 A petition calling on the chief executives of Whitireia, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, NorthTec, Unitec and Wintec to start negotiating with their staff is drawing a steady stream of signatures since it was launched yesterday. Since being abandoned by the Western Institute of Technology [...]

TEU members at Northtec, Unitec, Wintec, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and Whitireia NZ want a collective agreement. We’re ready to negotiate it on any day our employer chooses. photos Videos

Send an email petition to the chief executives of Northtec, Unitec, Wintec, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and Whitireia NZ telling them you want them to negotiate a site-based collective agreement with the union members on their site. TEU is ready – we have a team of professional, democratic, local people [...]

Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 18 TEU members at five polytechnics will launch a major campaign on Friday evening to convince their employers that it is time to give up the legal challenges and start bargaining for site collective agreements as the Employment Court agreed should happen. TEU national president [...]