Tertiary sector news & views
11 March 2014 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has taken out a full page advertisement on page 10 of the Courier Mail to highlight the industrial issues at the University of Queensland as the NTEU sees them. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… … [Read more...]
10 March 2014 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… NTEU members at the University of Queensland (UQ) will strike on 11 March for better pay and conditions. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… NTEU UQ Branch President, Associate Professor Andrew Bonnell, said that the University languishes behind others when it came to pay, workloads, and indigenous employment. He said UQ is in the top three universities in Australia on most indicators but ranks 23rdfor pay and that, despite student numbers having risen by 20% over 5 years, there has been no increase in teaching staff. The strain this places on workloads obviously has negative consequences for student … [Read more...]
The Australian | 10 March 2014 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… NTEU members at Macquarie University are striking on Tuesday 11 March for more permanent and early career academic staff to address casualisation and ensure fairer workloads. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Management has offered staff a 9 % pay rise over three years in a proposal largely in line with recent agreements elsewhere in the sector of around 3 per cent a year. But the union is seeking 11% over three-and-a-half years, or just over 3.1% a year. The key disagreement is over the NTEU’s national campaign to get universities to convert more casual positions into permanent … [Read more...]
NTEU News | 24 September 2013 National Tertiary Education Union members at the University of Melbourne will begin a 24-hour strike from noon Wednesday 25 September, to noon Thursday 26 September. The union says the strike is in response to senior management’s "aggressive approach in enterprise bargaining negotiations seeking to strip away many current working conditions". According to the NTEU, the University is insisting that professional staff redundancy payments be cut for the majority of professional staff into the future and has given no serious ground on the key workloads and jobs security elements of our claims. The NTEU’s bargaining claim includes improving job … [Read more...]
23 September 2013 Deakin University and the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) have provisionally agreed on terms for a new enterprise agreement. The new agreement will include a 3% annual salary increase, and a $1200 initial increase to all salary bands (pro rata for non full-time staff). This reflects CPI (estimated at 2.5%), plus 0.5% per year which, together with the $1200 increase, works out at around at an average increase of 13.95% over the four years, or nearly 3.5% a year. The top-up payment means the percentage increase will be higher for lower-paid staff, and lower for staff on higher pay scales. Other key features include a revised academic workloads model, … [Read more...]
ABC Fact Check | 30 August 2013 An advertisement by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) says there are almost twice as many university students per teacher now than a generation ago. "In just one generation university class sizes have almost doubled due to chronic underfunding," the union ad claims. The ad, released on August 12 as a part of the union's $1 million Uni Cuts, Dumb Cuts campaign, calls on viewers to "vote smart" and "vote Greens in the Senate". The claim: The amount of university students in a one-teacher classroom has almost doubled since 1990. The verdict: The claim is correct. There are almost twice as many students per teacher now than there … [Read more...]
Click to go to NTEU Gillard consolidates her leadership – now for the real challenge Labor’s situation in the national political debate deteriorated significantly during the last parliamentary session when a ham-fisted attempt to ram media reform through a parliament that the government doesn’t really control failed, and the latest manifestation of the Gillard-versus-Rudd leadership battle played itself out with a spectacular contribution by the former arts minister Simon Crean. Dr … [Read more...]
