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  • Massey to pay living wage16 May, 2013 - 11:00 am

    Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 15 Massey University will likely be next to follow The Warehouse by offering its workers a “living wage” according to the Manawatu Standard earlier this week. University spokesman James Gardiner told the Standard the university would meet tertiary union representatives at the pay negotiations table with an offer to match [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • ‘Choose staff not consultants’ TEU tells Lincoln2 May, 2013 - 9:09 am

    Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 13 Lincoln spent $1.2 million dollars last year on external consultants and has already spent a further $200,000 this year. TEU organiser Cindy Doull obtained the information from an official information request to the university. TEU members are initiating for collective agreement negotiations with Lincoln today and Cindy Doull says she would [...]

  • 2%, only for union members, at Awanuiārangi18 April, 2013 - 9:54 am

    Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 12 Union members at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi will be voting on a 2 percent pay rise next month. Four days of negotiations between the two unions, TEU and TIASA, and the whare wānanga concluded successfully last week with a two percent offer backdated to 1 January this year. [...]

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