Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 8 Employment negotiations for thousands of university staff at seven of New Zealand’s eight universities will begin in three months’ time, and union members are already working out what the main issues they need to see addressed to improve their working life. One of the [...]

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 [...]

As part of its on-going campaign for Pay and Employment Equity TEU is supporting the CTU’s petition to encourage workers to invite Department of Labour inspectors into their workplaces to check the time and wage records of their employers for any discrimination. CTU President, Helen Kelly said “The Ministers of [...]

This edition of the branch newsletter is focussed on celebrating the contributions our general/allied staff make to the life and community of the university. We have profiled some of our members to display the diversity, excellence and support to all of us who are part of the university community. PROFILES [...]

“If you’re enthusiastic about something and take a positive attitude you do learn a lot. I’ve really enjoyed being health and safety rep. It’s really helped my work in the library as well.” Jane Goodbehere has worked at the University of Waikato Library for 14 years. The last five years [...]

A change proposal at Waikato’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences that was initially forecasting 17 or 18 redundancies has now been called off with nearly all staff keeping their jobs. After consultation, submissions from a range of interested parties, including TEU, and a few voluntary redundancies, the faculty was finally proposing last week to cut just 1.5 full time academic positions

Education minister Anne Tolley has criticised a University of Waikato professor she says is teaching a biased teacher education course. However, TEU is concerned that the minster’s public attack undermines academic freedom. Mrs Tolley said students at the university’s faculty of education had been “let down” and were “clearly distressed” [...]

Auckland Academics have still not been able to settle their CEA and negotiations are still fraught for them.  There are two key sticking points: University management want to remove core terms and conditions around research and study leave, promotion processes and outside activities, from the CEA and place them into [...]

Murray Horton, spokesperson of the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA), is conducting a NZ speaking tour during April to discuss amongst many things the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and the dangers it poses to the NZ economy and to our very democracy. If you are interested in what he [...]

Every year each department/programme hires a number of casual staff to assist with tutorials, labs etc in the various disciplines.  As a permanent academic staff member it would be of great assistance if you could also advise these casuals when they start that there is a union available to them [...]