Welcome to the Tasmanian Division webpage!
Welcome to the NTEU Tasmanian Division
Read about the people who organise the Division, the latest news, current issues, and the benefits of membership.
The National Tertiary Education Union represents General and Academic Staff at the University of Tasmania. The Union is a party to the bargaining agreements that cover all General, Academic and English Language Centre Staff, and offers advice to members about pay and conditions. The Union is active in pursuing professional and intellectual issues in higher education, as well as in protecting the rights and interests of its members.
Collective Bargaining
Dear Member,
The NTEU Tasmanian Division Council has voted to lift all current workplace bans, effective 9:00 am, Monday November 23, 2009. The offer of 3-year agreements does represent a major concession from UTAS management, considering that as recently as a week ago they were still promoting a 7-month roll-over of the agreements. By lifting our bans, we aim to facilitate a positive environment for good faith negotiations.
The quantum of the pay offer is unfortunately inadequate - well below the 16 to 20 percent increases (by mid-2012) being offered at other tertiary institutions. We are hopeful that through dialogue and negotiation over the summer we can achieve an outcome that will assist in rewarding and retaining existing staff, as well as enabling UTAS to continue to attract new staff including people from interstate and overseas.
We would like to thank all our members who have supported the NTEU this year. A special thanks to the new members who have joined this year to make the Tasmanian Division the greatest membership growth in the country for 2009!
NTEU will shortly hold a series of members’ meeting to discuss the progress of bargaining and to celebrate our role in representing staff at UTAS. We feel that we have made a real difference this year. Please look out for the email inviting you to one of these events.
Regards, Kelvin Michael
Please sign our PETITION to UTAS: http://universitybargaining.com.au/2009/08/utas-petition/
RESOLUTION to protect job security passed unanimously at Division Council meeting:
The NTEU views with great concern proposals for the radical restructuring of the academic and administrative entities of the University of Tasmania and will act to protect job security and the academic and professional rights of all staff in any protected restructuring process.
- Contact us
- Tasmanian Division Council
- Collective Bargaining 2009
- Meetings/Events
- Latest News
- Issues
- Education Faculty Workloads Dispute
- Division Calendar
- North and South Tasmanian Division Newsletter
- e-bulletins
- Join the NTEU
- Links
- Australian Maritime College
- Statement of accounts 2008
Contact us
TASMANIAN DIVISION CONTACT INFORMATION
Elected Officers:
- President: Kelvin Michael Phone: 03 6226 2977
- Secretary: John Kenny Phone: 03 6324 3269
Staff:
- Industrial Officer: Rob Binnie rbinnie@nteu.org.au
- Industrial Organiser: Ken Richardson krichardson@nteu.org.au
Phone: 03 6226 7575
Fax: 03 6226 2172
Mail: Private Bag 101, University of Tasmania, Hobart 7001.
Address: 4 Grace Street, Sandy Bay
Tasmanian Division Council
The Tasmanian Division Council meets regularly - once a month or more frequently as required - to manage the Division’s affairs.
| Tasmanian Division Council | Meet the Council members. |
Collective Bargaining 2009
| UTAS shifts to 3 year Agreement(s) but salary offer fails the Respect test | Academic and General Staff Salary comparisons 2008-2012; UTAS Financial Projections 2009-2012 |
| Items of impasse with UTAS Management | More than 18 months of strenuous negotiations with UTAS management have yielded few results in collective bargaining. |
| Advice to your employer about implementing bans | Do I need to advise my employer that I am performing workplace bans? |
| Strike Advice | What do I do if management asks me if I am participating in a work stoppage? |
| Adverse action | What protections do I have if my employer bullies me for taking protected industrial action? |
| What we are bargaining for? | A leaflet that will give you information about the status of collective bargaining at UTAS. |
| Our Log of Claims | The log of claims was served on the Vice-Chancellor on 30 May 2008. |
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| PowerPoint information for students | Powerpoint presentation designed to give students information about the industrial dispute. |
| MEDIA | The latest news about collective bargaining |
| Campaign Poster | Please print this poster and stick it on your door! |
| Fixed term data | |
| Fixed term data 2 | |
| ELC data | UTAS management is addicted to the use of fixed-term and casual positions. |
| ELC data 2 |
Meetings/Events
Thursday 11 March.
Members' meetings are being held on Thursday 11 March to provide updates about the collective bargaining negotiations to date.
The meeting will be conducted via videoconference between Sandy Bay and Newnham campuses.
The venues are :
Sandy Bay: SB.MMLib.B106.Video
Newnham: NH.A023.Video
Monday 15 March.
Menzies 1:00pm - 2:00pm (venue to be advised)
Meetings at TAFI; Art School/Con, SVPA, AMC, Beauty Point and Cradle Coast are still being organised and details will be provided as soon as possible.
Latest News
| Bradley Report Division Advice to Members | Keep up with the latest advice about the Bradley Review |
| Our universities matter campaign | Sign the petition today |
| Statement of Accounts 2006 | A statement of Accounts for the NTEU Tasmanian Division is now available for members. Attached are the accounts for 2007. |
Issues
The NTEU Tasmanian Division office has seen a significant increase in the number of cases related to workplace bullying at UTAS.
UTAS are required to provide a workplace that is free from all forms of bullying and harassment and has policies and procedures to ensure this occurs.
The sad reality is that these policies and procedures are not being followed by some managers and supervisors indicating that bullying in the workplace is deeply ingrained into the UTAS culture.
Workplace bullying must stop, if you are or have been bullied or are aware of bullying occuring in your workplace, you should -
- Make a written record of the incident(s)
- Complete an incident report and lodge it with UTAS Human Resources
- Contact the NTEU Division office or your nearest Division Councillor.
Don't tolerate bullying, you have a right to a workplace that is free from bullying and harassment.
| University's committment to General staff | |
| Union Aid Abroad | APHEDA |
| National Issues | Issues of interest affecting Higher Education staff across the country |
Education Faculty Workloads Dispute
During 2009, and following a ruling in the AIRC last year, the Faculty of Education has been trialling a revised workload designed to provide a holistic , transparent and equitable method to determine academic workloads. It centres around calculating time for a range of academic activities including teaching, research and administrative aspects . The model incorporates 40%- 40%- 20% split for teaching-research- and admin/community activities to ensure balance and protect staff from excessive teaching. Prior to this, the faculty management, supported by senior university management had tried to impose a workload allocation model based on n 80% teaching.
As a trial, the evaluation of the model is progressing well. Recently the Faculty was able to develop a complete summary of the academic work going on in the Faculty, that summarised the teaching, research and other duties people perform. This summary document has proved to be very useful for the faculty management as planning information because it helps to identify resource gaps and potential staff overload. While the figures need to be further analysed and refined, the early indications are that the Faculty is seriously under resourced and there is evidence of many staff being overloaded. This identifies academic workload as a OH&S issue which UTAS will have to address.
During the remainder of 2009, the model will be refined based on feedback. The workload allocation process should result in all staff having a complete picture of the full range of their work for 2010 before the end of 2009 and is to be fully integrated with performance management. This in itself will be a significant improvement in a faculty dogged by crisis management over recent years. In short we have made great strides, but there is still a way to go. We hope that 2010 will finally bring a just and equitable workload allocation process to the Faculty, only four years after one was supposed to be in place.
The use of a time based-model, as outlined in the EBA was something that many academics were dubious about initially, but our experience shows, if it is properly designed, it can be a good way to account for the complexities of academic work and to enable meaningful discussion to introduce truly flexible and transparent processes around the allocation of work. After going through all this pain, and seeing the benefits starting to flow, we would be very reluctant to go back to something as ill-defined as an outputs based model as proposed by UTAS management.
Division Calendar
The next meeting of the Division Council will be held on Tuesday 2 March 2010 between 4:00pm and 6:00pm.
| Events | All events for Tasmanian Division |
North and South Tasmanian Division Newsletter
| North and South Spring 2008 | |
| North and South May 2008 Edition | |
| North and South March 2007 Edition | The Union newsletter keeping members informed accross Tasmania. |
| North and South November 06 | |
| North and South October 2007 |
e-bulletins
Collective Bargaining:
As collective bargaining negotiations with UTAS continue, the university has indicated that they are not in a position to offer any salary increases other than the 4% administrative pay rise already granted. Negotiations at other institutions have not only resulted in agreed outcomes in relation to improved conditions but have also delivered substantial salary increases.
Examples of agreed salary increases are:
Deakin 17.1% with an agreement end date of 30 June 2012
Sydney 18.3% with an agreement end date of May 2012
Negotiations are heading towards a conclusion at Swinburne , RMIT, Victoria and La Trobe University. All have agreed on the major claims similar to ours, while UTAS continues to bargain in bad faith and not address our core log of claims. Additional information about the collective bargaining state of play at other institutions can be found in the latest copy of Advocate, the Journal of the NTEU.
Upcoming Meetings:
Meetings for members will be called in the near future to provide updates on collective bargaining as well as considering our next course of action.
Meetings will be held on all 3 campuses, either in face or via video conference. Additional meetings at smaller outlying sites will also be held.
Dates and venues will be advised for the meeting to be held in early March shortly.
Emergency Contacts:
Tasmanian Division Office: 03 6226 7575
Division Secretary: 03 6324 3269
Division President: 03 6226 2977
NTEU NAtional Office: 03 9254 1910
Join the NTEU
There has never been a more appropriate time to be a union member; unions are the only organisations standing in the way of truly awesome suppression of rights and exploitation of staff. There are also real perks to being a NTEU member. The NTEU also has a special deal for casual staff.
It's easy to join the NTEU
- Join online
- Download an application form (see below)
- Visit the Division Office
| Application form | Application form for all staff other than casual |
| Casual application form | Discount rates for casual staff |
| Why join the NTEU? | Reasons for joining and benefits of membership |
Links
Useful, informative and entertaining links
| Links |
Australian Maritime College
Amalgamation Deed Negotiations
NTEU AMC AMALGAMATION UPDATE
The deed has been succesfully negotiated with UTAS management.
The deed protects AMC General and Academic staff conditions above the conditions in the UTAS agreement.
For more information please contact krichardson@nteu.org.au
| Translation to UTAS for AMC Academic and General Staff | To find out how you fit into the proposed UTAS translation please download the excel file |
| General Staff pay scales | Find out your transalation to UTAS pay scales with the proposed Deed. |
| Academic Pay Scales for Deed with UTAS | Find out your pay scales with the proposed Deed. |
| AMC Deed (NTEU) | This is the words that the NTEU is negotiating to have included in the Deed |
| AMC Division Council Representative | Vacancy for AMC representative on Division Council |
Statement of accounts 2008
The statement of accounts for 2008 are now available on this web site. Any questions regarding the accounts should be directed to Catherine.Behrens@utas.edu.au
| Statement of accounts |