TEU members at Manukau Institute of Technology had intended to hold a lunchtime barbecue for Wiri’s locked-out AFFCO workers tomorrow. Members who brought food to donate to the locked out workers and their families would have received a sausage sizzle in return. However, MIT’s chief executive Dr Peter Brothers vetoed [...]

A lobbying disclosure bill that is to be debated by parliament could impact tertiary institutions that currently pay lobbying agencies to influence politicians.  Last year Tertiary Update revealed that private lobbying and consultancy company Saunders Unsworth lists among its past and present clients Massey University, Otago University, the six metro polytechnics, Victoria University of Wellington, [...]

TEU members at the Manukau Institute of Technology are voting on whether to ratify a collective agreement after only a day of negotiations. The new agreement includes a 2 percent pay rise and no loss of conditions. The ratification vote closes tomorrow afternoon. Branch president Lesley Francey says she is [...]

Tertiary institutions are in a constant state of restructuring says TEU deputy secretary Nanette Cormack. Last week TEU’s national council heard that there are 59 reviews affecting 500 jobs currently underway across 17 different tertiary education institutions. “500 members are about 5 percent of our membership. When one in twenty [...]

TEU has raised at an institute-wide level our concern about the ‘imperative’ contained in this and other proposals – in this case, that the Faculty must reduce the staff budget to save $248,904. Two key points need to be recorded here.  First, we seek an undertaking that there is a real [...]

Submission on the Proposed restructure of CELT-2.doc Download this file In summary we are very concerned that what is proposed will not deliver the increase that the Faculty management appear to assume it will, and it also tries to make specialists be in part generalists. These factors will make it [...]

A ‘beginners guide to voluntary redundancy’, the TEU submission on the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences, the TEU submission on the Student Services Directorate, submission on the Faculty of Nursing and Health Science, and Selection Criteria Feedback. a beginner’s guide to voluntary redundancy.doc Download this file Faculty of Education [...]

TEU submission on Manukau Institute of Technology’s proposal to restructure and downsize the Student Affairs Directorate Open publication – Free publishing – More manukau

TEU has raised at an institute-wide level our concern about the ‘imperative’ contained in this and other proposals – in this case, that the “Faculty must reduce the staff  to save $1.2M. Two key points need to be recorded here.  First, we seek an undertaking that there is a staffing [...]

TEU has raised at an institute-wide level our concern about the ‘imperatives’ contained in this and other proposals – in this case, that the “Faculty must reduce the staff budget, and if there is any change to the staffing numbers from what is proposed, that others will then have to [...]