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• General Staff Day 2012May 10, 2012, 2:24 pm

  Wednesday 25 July 2012  The purpose of General Staff Day is to celebrate the contribution general staff members make to the union and to their workplace.  The day is also an opportunity to introduce TEU to potential new members, and to highlight issues that may affect general staff. Theme In 2012, [...]

• Lincoln swaps permanent staff for casual studentsApril 5, 2012, 10:23 am

  Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 10 Mere days into its stewardship under a new vice-chancellor Lincoln University is proposing to restructure its Faculty of Commerce and make five senior tutors redundant. The change proposal document states that the university wants to disestablish all existing senior tutor positions in the faculty. [...]

• Welcome to the TEU general staff sector group’s newsletterMarch 26, 2012, 4:01 pm

  Kia ora March 2012 In this newsletter: Filling extended leave positions – is a trend developing for not appointing staff to fill these positions? Recruiting general staff in the ITP sector – your chance to be involved. General Staff Day 2012 – all about recruitment – and some fun! The [...]

• Phoenix rises from Christchurch RubbleMarch 15, 2012, 8:56 am

  The newly founded Phoenix University of Canterbury opened for business this week, signifying the start of a new era of tertiary education for Christchurch. The new universitech, which was the result of a ministerially-driven merger of Canterbury-based tertiary institutions, had until this week been provisionally trading under the name LinctaburyPIT. [...]

• 2500 backroom sackings saved no money at allMarch 8, 2012, 10:34 am

  Tertiary institutions need to be wary of pressure to make cuts to administration and ‘back office’ staff says TEU national president Dr Sandra Grey, because the evidence of cost saving just does not stack up. Dr Grey’s comments follow news this week that despite the government cutting more than 2500 state [...]

• A guide to general staff branch contact peopleMarch 1, 2012, 2:40 pm

  October 2011  Open publication – Free publishing – More general staff Note: For further information about these roles, please contact your branch president, branch organiser, or the TEU national office Table of contents Introduction What might be included in the role? Branch communications Regular contact with the general staff sector [...]

• Auckland general staff vote on new ‘fair’ pay modelNovember 25, 2011, 3:04 pm

  General staff at the University of Auckland will vote shortly on a new collective agreement  that includes a commitment from the university to purse a “fair, objective, transparent and fiscally responsible remuneration model” and an agreement that TEU and the PSA will be involved in the development of the new [...]

• Negotiations meander along at Auckland UniversityNovember 10, 2011, 10:26 am

  Negotiations for PSA and TEU general staff members at the University of Auckland resume today with mediation assistance. Union members have been negotiating for four months now, and are still awaiting a pay offer. TEU advocate Jane Kostanich says the union parties are ready to negotiate “but we need an [...]

• University of Auckland general staff challenge performance payOctober 20, 2011, 8:38 am

  General staff members at the University of Auckland from both TEU and the PSA are currently voting on industrial action and are holding stop-work meetings after the university intransigently proposed to put them on a new performance pay model. Union members will meet next week to discuss bargaining and a [...]

• Draper and Francey to contest vice-presidencySeptember 15, 2011, 9:48 am

  The University of Canterbury’s Helen Kissell, and the University of Auckland’s Alexandra Sims have both been re-elected unopposed as TEU general staff vice-president and women’s vice-president respectively. However, the ITP academic staff vice presidency will be a contest between incumbent Richard Draper from CPIT and Manukau Institute of Technology’s Lesley [...]

• International support for general staff rightsJuly 28, 2011, 10:48 am

  The global education union Education International is investing €68,000 in an effort to prevent the growing use and exploitation of general staff who are employed on a casual, part-time and/or limited-term basis without continuing security of employment. TEU National President Sandra Grey reports that the Education International (EI) World Congress meeting [...]

• Pay Equity Coalition welcomes new Equal Pay BillJune 26, 2011, 2:32 pm

  The Pay Equity Challenge, a coalition of business and community groups and unions, is welcoming Catherine Delahunty’s new Equal Pay Bill as an effective  way of dealing to the wage gap between men’s and women’s pay.  “This bill modernises our approach to equal pay, and will help to give women [...]

• General Staff Day, 6 July 2011June 20, 2011, 1:27 pm

  Contents Calendar Introduction Ideas for activities Poster to download Logos to download Event calendar Institution Activities for GS Day? VC/CE response University of Auckland (JK/JA) The branch will hold GSD later in July, once negotiations are underway Massey University (PN) (LOH) Lunch and quiz (Turitea campus)   Agreed   University [...]

• General Staff Sector group newsletterApril 13, 2011, 11:53 am

  13 April 2011 Dear TEU General Staff members, This email is a quick update on the work planned by the General Staff Sector group in 2011. Our priority for the year is a continuing focus on the remuneration of General Staff in the Tertiary Education Sector. To this end we [...]

• TEU Annual Conference 2010 – General staff vice presidents’ reportFebruary 4, 2011, 11:22 am

  GENERAL STAFF SECTOR GROUP TEU Annual Conference 2010 – General staff vice presidents’ report 2010 has been another busy year for the general staff sector group which began in February by welcoming new members and farewelling previous members. Job evaluation In the first half of the year we undertook a [...]