Latest General Staff news

• TEU calls for Manawatu to pay the living wage9 May, 2013 - 10:13 am

  Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 14 Massey University staff, whose minimum pay rates are more than $5 per hour below the living wage, deserve better pay says local TEU organiser Dean Scott. “Massey is a big public employer in the Manawatu and it has a leadership role in its community ensuring local people are paid a living [...]

• ELECTION: University general staff rep on Council19 October, 2012 - 2:16 pm

  There are two candidates standing for the one position of university general staff rep on Council. Below is information about each of the two candidates, and an explanation of how the vote will take place At the bottom of this page is a comment section where you can ask the candidates questions, as well as read their answers to questions that other people have asked them. Voting All [...]

• Waikato general staff win new pay rates4 October, 2012 - 8:21 am

  Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 35 TEU organiser Megan Morris hopes a new collective agreement at the University of Waikato will make it easier for general staff to seek and gain higher rates of pay. Union members voted to ratify new collective agreements for general staff and academic staff last week. The collective agreements include [...]

• Telford kitchen staff denied eight-hour days16 August, 2012 - 10:14 am

  Lincoln University intends to deny some of the lowest paid staff in the tertiary education sector the same employment conditions as other staff it employs. The kitchen and residential staff at Lincoln’s Telford campus have recently applied to join the TEU collective employment agreement. However, Lincoln says that if they do join the Services Staff [...]

• Challenging general staff myths26 July, 2012 - 10:04 am

  Some of the heaviest burden of persistent cost cutting is falling upon general staff, according to TEU national president Sandra Grey. Sandra Grey gave a speech for General Staff Day at Otago University yesterday where she challenged the myth that general staff were part of a problematic bloated public sector. “In an environment of persistent [...]

• Waging war on the ‘back office’ won’t improve teaching and learning25 July, 2012 - 12:35 pm

  General Staff Day address, 25 July, 2012 Sandra Grey, NZTEU Introduction Persistent cost cutting in New Zealand’s tertiary education budget is having major effects upon staff and students in universities, polytechnics, and wānanga. Quite often some of the heaviest burdens from the drive for ‘efficiency’ fall on the general staff who provide a range of [...]

• Celebrating General Staff Day at tertiary institutions24 July, 2012 - 1:04 pm

  They make up nearly half of the people working in our universities, polytechnics and wānanga. They go by a range of names: general staff, professional staff, allied staff, technicians, librarians, administrators, cleaners and maintenance, and more. They are crucial to making sure New Zealand students continue to get the world class learning experience that they [...]

• Pay the topic of the day for general staff19 July, 2012 - 9:54 am

  Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 24 For many professional, general and allied staff at universities a fair pay increase will be one of the hot topics of discussion at next week’s general staff day. This year TEU’s annual general staff day, which includes celebratory events at all eight universities and several polytechnics, overlaps with employment [...]

• General Staff Day events 201219 July, 2012 - 9:08 am

    Branch Activity Venue Time University of Auckland celebratory event with refreshments provided Old Government House Lounge 12.30 – 1.30pm Massey Palmerston North Lunch & a quiz (lots of prizes!) Get a team together for the quiz (max 10) Conference Room, Sports and Rugby Institute, Albany Drive, Turitea Campus 12 noon – 2.00pm Massey Albany [...]

• Enter the draw to win Prizes on General Staff Day13 June, 2012 - 3:14 pm

  Whether your are general staff, professional staff or allied staff you can win $500 of travel at TEU’s General Staff Day this year. If you bring a general staff friend or colleague who has not joined the TEU yet to a General Staff Day event, you go into the draw for one of these exciting [...]

• General Staff Day 201210 May, 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, the union as a whole [...]

• Lincoln swaps permanent staff for casual students5 April, 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. A new 0.5 FTE administrative [...]

• Welcome to the TEU general staff sector group’s newsletter26 March, 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 impact of VSM – are [...]

• Phoenix rises from Christchurch Rubble15 March, 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. It has now completed its [...]

• 2500 backroom sackings saved no money at all8 March, 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 sector jobsover the last three [...]