Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 8 Massey University is working to prevent workplace bullying and harassment. The project is a notable feature of the ongoing implementation of the recommendations from the Pay and Employment Equity Review, which the university undertook in cooperation with TEU in 2010. The university began its project by changing its ’20/20′ [...]

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 $3.5 billion. Last year the [...]

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 joined these five polytechnics in [...]

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 Plenty Polytechnic, Winted and Whitireia [...]

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. However, recently printed annual reports [...]

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 members voted in February that [...]

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 after union members voted in [...]

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 in Taranaki (WITT), which settled [...]

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 just like you. We know [...]