Secure Work 2025.

An online conference aimed at discussing what actions we should take together to ensure secure work is the norm in the tertiary education sector.

Papers are called for the following panels:

Panel 1

The tertiary education sector has large numbers of workers on hourly paid and fixed term agreements. This precarity doesn’t happen by accident, it is part of the design of the system.

In this session we will discuss where we are and where we should be going with regard secure and decent work for the good of workers, students, institutions, and Aotearoa.

We will unpack the structural drivers of precarity and the key barriers which prevent us from challenging it.

And discuss why tertiary education should be built on secure work.

Panel 2

Insecurity at work does not affect everyone equally. In this panel we will examine the varied impacts of insecure work on different groups of workers from cleaners to researchers, librarians to tutors. And, the impact of insecure work on Māori, Pasifika, ethnic minorities, and other marginalised groups.

We will identify evidence for the unequal impact of precarity on some groups of workers and target solidarity interventions for the most affected groups?

Panel 3

In this session we examine what the TEU and other unions both domestically and internationally are doing about insecure work, and look at what more we can do.

The session will examine:

• Daily collective actions to support those without secure employment
• Industrial and legal actions that can be taken to ensure secure employment
• And the political and campaigning actions which will address the structural problems which lead to mass insecurity

Please send your papers to jordyn.broughton@teu.ac.nz
by 5pm on Tuesday September 30.