Unitec
Organiser
Jane Adams
jane.adams@teu.ac.nz
PO Box 52066, Kingsland, Auckland 1352
4 Western Springs Road, Morningside, Auckland 1021
Phone 09 815 8029
Branch President
Sarah Hardman
shardman@unitec.ac.nz
09 815 4321 x 6176
Employment Agreement
Unitec Collective Agreement to 9 November 2013
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Protests over foundation studies cut21 November, 2012 - 12:41 pmTertiary Update Vol 15 No 41 TEU members are holding protests and meetings at polytechnics around the country today to convince the government to put more money into foundation studies education at polytechnics. The protests coincide with media coverage (from Auckland’s New Zealand Herald to Dunedin’s Otago Daily Times) of the millions of dollars the government has [...]
$31 million public money spent on advertising27 September, 2012 - 9:54 amFigures supplied to the Otago Daily Times by the New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA) show New Zealand’s public tertiary institutions spent $31 million on advertising last year. The tertiary institution – including polytechnics and other providers – which spent the most overall was Unitec, which spent $4.8 million, followed by the Open Polytechnic, [...]
Pastoral care should be specialist role, not add on21 June, 2012 - 9:34 amUnitec foundations studies lecturer Susan Wātene says foundation students’ programmes are coming under increasing pressure from reviews and restructuring. Foundations studies students need more pastoral care and support but often that pastoral support is not specifically funded which means it is done by staff who already have other jobs. “If positions for pastoral support are [...]
Lobbying bill could end secret tertiary education lobbying12 April, 2012 - 10:09 amA 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, and the Industry Training Federation. [...]
More polytechnic students15 February, 2012 - 12:52 pmSome polytechnics are reporting strong enrolments and say relatively high unemployment is continuing to drive people into tertiary education according to Radio New Zealand According to Radio NZ tertiary institutions in New Plymouth, Wellington, Porirua and Auckland say enrolments are between 5 percent and 40 percent higher than at the same time last year. “However, [...]
Long wait over at Unitec10 November, 2011 - 10:28 amTertiary Update vol 14 No 42 TEU members at Unitec finally have a collective agreement again, after nearly a year on individual employment agreements. Members at Unitec voted to ratify their new collective last Friday. “This is now the second collective agreement that TEU has settled coming out of the old ITP MECA that dissolved [...]
More trades academies announced8 September, 2011 - 9:48 amEducation Minister Anne Tolley has announced the ten new Trades Academies, which are to open around New Zealand from 2012, providing practical skills training for secondary school students while allowing them to study for NCEA credits and tertiary qualifications. Mrs Tolley also announced this week that Christchurch is to have a new Trades Academy, and [...]
Negotiations across the nation14 July, 2011 - 11:11 amThe 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 [...]
Letter to Ombudsman re: costs associated with bargaining8 July, 2011 - 8:49 am7th 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 [...]
$500,000 increase in legal fees and consultants30 June, 2011 - 11:33 amTertiary 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 [...]






