Stand as one – university negotiations 09
1. Pledge support to the bargaining team
Simply, all everyone needs to do is go to this webpage, sign in and leave a message of support.
2. Hang one poster somewhere in your worksite
- maybe on their office door, on a notice board or somewhere else. Just print off the black and white poster, sign it and pin it up:
3. Meet your local branch.
All members need to do is go to the website, sign in, and leave a message saying that they can offer support to their branch in its campaigning activities.
Presentation to the universities’ stopwork meetings
University negotiations stalemate
A further two days of university employment negotiations took place on Wednesday and Thursday last week, when the combined union team, representing staff from all eight universities, met with the university employers’ negotiating team. Lead advocate for the union negotiating team, TEU deputy secretary Nanette Cormack, says the negotiations were frustrating, with university employers refusing to even consider the workers’ claim for a nationwide collective agreement…
Combined unions report back on university negotiations, 23-24 July
Summary
- 2 days of negotiations last week
- Team focused on achieving modest but fair set of claims for all members
- Still have not received all employer claims
- Negotiations resume on Aug 19-20 […]
TEU members endorse university national bargaining again
With just a few votes yet to be counted, TEU members at the country’s eight universities have again endorsed a bargaining strategy that seeks a nationwide university collective employment agreement. If successful, the strategy would see twenty-one existing collective agreements across eight universities amalgamated into just two – one for general staff and one for academic staff[...]
University staff call for end to compulsory redundancies
University staff who are members of unions have given their bargaining claims to the employers of the country’s eight universities ahead of employment negotiations that are due to begin on Thursday and Friday this week. Among the limited number of claims is one that requires universities not to make anyone compulsorily redundant [...]
Mixed messages from NZVCC
The Vice Chancellors Committee has sent out a range of responses to last week’s budget.
On the day of the budget a “measured” NZVCC Chair Roger Field, from Lincoln University, described the budget as worrying and called for “savings achieved through reduced tertiary education compliance costs and cuts in bureaucracy [...]
Pay expectations falling too far
The government’s and the State Services Commission’s attempts to lower people’s pay rise expectations have been too successful, according to TEU President Tom Ryan.
“Many people have heard the gloom and doom stories and have been convinced that pay increases are not justified.”
The reality is that inflation is still 3 percent and the costs that are driving inflation are the same things that affect working people the most.
