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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
Bold proposal puts people at the heart of vocational education
Press release 13 February 2019 Bold proposal puts people at the heart of vocational education Staff can turn their attention to opening doors for students and communities with creative teaching, learning, and ...
VET reform – our voice matters
Together we have made sure that students, iwi, communities, and staff are at the heart of bold changes proposed for the vocational education sector. And we need to keep working ...
New funding model needed
Tertiary Update – Vol 23 No 5 With the consultation period for the Reform of Vocational Education now closed, the Government will be considering submissions made by Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa (TEU) ...
State of the Tertiary Education Sector survey
Two years ago news headlines highlighted the pressure staff in tertiary education were under to elevate grades, and it seems pressures are still high in the sector. Research being released on May Day ...
New minimum wage and living wage for 2019
This week saw New Zealand’s minimum wage increase and a new living wage rate announced. The new minimum wage rose from $16.50 to $17.70, in a step towards the Coalition Government’s commitment of ...
The Domestic Violence – Victims’ Protection Act 2018
The TEU supports the introduction of the Domestic Violence –Victims’ Protection Act which builds in to law protections and support for victims of domestic and intimate partner violence. The law change is an ...
With power comes responsibility
Lexie Matheson, AUT, looks at the latest harmful words of Israel Folau and what it means for the LGBTIQ community and all of us. So Israel Folau is it again. Barely a year ...
Tertiary Education Union
PO Box 11-767
Wellington 6142
Kia ora!
I’m Michael Gilchrist, president of the New Zealand Tertiary Education Union Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa (TEU) for 2019-20.
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.