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Because we are stronger together
Together we are a stronger voice for all tertiary education workers and the important role we play for students and the wider community. We believe in working hard for the students in our institutions, and being respected and paid fairly for that work. We believe in a high quality, public education system that that gives everyone a chance, and helps to build strong communities. We are part of the New Zealand union movement and we believe in working people working together to make things fairer and better for everyone.
We have strength and credibility
TEU is for everybody who works in tertiary education, including universities, polytechnics, wānanga and private training institutions, REAPs and OTEPs. We are a democratic organisation and we stand up together for what we believe in.
Polytechnics
- Ara Institute of Canterbury (Christchurch)
- Ara Institute of Canterbury (Aoraki)
- EIT Eastern Institute of Techology
- MIT Manukau Institute of Technology
- NMIT
- NorthTec
- Open Polytechnic
- Otago Polytechnic
- SIT
- Tai Poutini Polytechnic
- Toi Ohomai (Rotorua)
- Toi Ohomai (Tauranga)
- UCOL
- Unitec
- Weltec
- Whitireia
- Wintec
- WITT
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Tertiary Education Union
PO Box 11-767
Wellington 6142
Kia ora!
I’m Sandra Grey, president of the New Zealand Tertiary Education Union Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa (TEU) for 2017-18.
Our union represents the interests of 10,000 people working in tertiary education. TEU is the main union in our sector. Our membership includes teachers and workers employed in all occupations in universities, polytechnics, institutes of technology, wānanga, other tertiary education providers and allied organisations.
TEU members work together collectively to safeguard and enhance our industrial, professional and educational goals, including:
- negotiating collective employment agreements so that you have the best possible pay and working conditions;
- advising and representing you with employment-relationship problems;
- monitoring and acting on issues that affect you in your workplace;
- improving the quality of tertiary education in New Zealand;
- developing specialist research and policy to promote the interests of tertiary education workers; and
- safeguarding the rights of Māori members and meeting the union’s responsibilities to wider Māori communities through the promotion of and adherence to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
We are a democratic union with strong membership participation and governed by an elected council.
TEU is the union for everybody who works in tertiary education. We are a democratic organisation and we stand up together for what we believe in.