Australian National University Branch

Welcome to the NTEU Australian National University Branch homepage. You can find contact details here for your elected Branch representatives and for the Branch Office and staff. There are also Branch news and event announcements.

You can also find out how to join the Union or get more actively involved in it.

If there's anything you'd like to see added to this page, please email us your ideas.

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Union Awareness Week: my part in making a difference
Latest News
Enterprise Bargaining 2009
News
NTEU ANU Branch responses to ANU policy changes
Calendar
Branch contact details
Branch Executive 2008-2010
Area Contacts
Enterprise Agreements
Casual Academics' Campaign
Feedback

Join NTEU

The best time to join the NTEU is now. Your membership fees go to work immediately on protecting and improving conditions for all university staff. Your right to individual assistance in case of a problem starts immediately too.

You can join online, download a Membership Form or get more information about the benefits of membership.

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Union Awareness Week: my part in making a difference

26th - 30th October

Over the last 15 years the NTEU and it's members have been constantly striving to improve the working life of the ANU community. Whether it's the industrial advice we provide, the better pay, leave arrangements and conditions gained for all ANU staff, or the lobbying we have done on behalf of the higher education sector, NTEU members have made a significant difference at ANU.

During Union Awareness Week, the NTEU will be conducting a week of activities to help raise awareness and recognise the achievements of NTEU members at ANU over the past 15 years.

What's happening	The ANU Branch of the NTEU is holding a Union Awareness Week next week beginning 26 October. The week is aimed at lifting the profile of the union by increasing the union's visibility on campus and informing staff of the role and achievements of union members over the past 15 years at ANU. The more visible we are as Union members, the more that other ANU staff will see being a Union Member as part of the ANU community.
Leaflet 1: Make a Difference	Need a reason to join the NTEU?
Leaflet 2: 15 Years making a difference at ANU	Over the last 15 years, the NTEU has grown to become the leading and most successful union in the tertiary sector.
Leaflet 3: Making a difference	In 15 years at ANU, NTEU members have negotiated 6 Collective Agreements that have provided benfits for all staff
Poster: Why wouldn't you join	Poster: Why wouldn't you join

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Latest News

ANU Branch audit 2008

Handout for sessional academics

Sessional academics, summary of employment conditions, 2009. In the recently negotiated Enterprise Agreement, the NTEU was successful in winning many improvements in conditions and pay for sessional academic staff. Our aim is to reduce as much as possible the subjectivity of sessional academic conditions, and more appropriately reward casual staff for the work they undertake. Please print out a copy for new sessional academics in your area.

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Enterprise Bargaining 2009

ANU 2009 Log of Claims

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News

ANU Intelligence November 2009	Articles about student surveys; enterprise bargaining; and Union Awareness Week.
ANU Intelligence July 2009	Articles about enterprise bargaining for pay and union rights; good outcomes on New IAS and intellectual property policy; changes to academic leave; and NTEU representatives arriving and departing.
ANU Intelligence March 2009	Articles about an important lobbying delegation to Canberra, gender equity for academic women, a hopeful new industrial era, improved conditions about fixed-term employment at ANU and the World Indigenous People's Conference: Education. Also contains invitations to NTEU Public Forum on equitable access to universities on March 11, and ACT women members' drinks gathering on March 5.
ANU Intelligence November 2008	Articles about 4.5% pay offer; NTEU National Council Report; Cooperation between new Division Councillors; new ANU Branch Committee; saving and giving money through your Union this Christmas.
ANU Intelligence July 2008	Articles about progress of enterprise bargaining at ANU, and the NTEU's Our Universities Matter campaign.
ANU Intelligence March 2008	Articles about Enterprise Bargaining 2008; Indigenous employment; changes to industrial laws; improving conditions for casual academics and fixed-term research staff.
ANU Intelligence November 2007	Articles about members' key election issues; voting for universities; defending unions; pay rise at ANU; and the next challenges for Ian Chubb's extended term.
ANU Intelligence July 2007	Articles on NTEU ACT Casuals' Conference and Women's forum; Government intervention in NT Indigenous communities; disturbing results of FOI requests about HEWRRs; new recording requirements for leave; getting active for Your Rights at Work.
Anu Intelligence February 2007	Articles on NTEU Women's Workshop on 28 Feb; Leadership retreat - disturbing pay proposal; General Staff at ANU Levels 1-2 may be missing out; issues for universities in Federal election; protecting entitlements if moving from continuing to fixed-term position; casual staff recruitment promotion; union research opportunity.
ANU Intelligence October 2006	Articles on casual staff, university funding, changes to Academic Boards, upcoming National Day of Protest for Rights at Work, and a special membership promotion.
ANU Intelligence June 2006	Articles on gender equity, threats to the ARC, RQF, Indigenous issues and more
Report on Gender Equity at ANU	'Sacrifice, Self Promotion and Sweet Talk' - a major report, commissioned by the NTEU, on equity for women at ANU in 2006.

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NTEU ANU Branch responses to ANU policy changes

Student Experience of Learning Questionnaire
Revised IP policy	Comments from NTEU Members sent to ANU
Review of OSP Policy and Procedure	Sent to Ron Watts, Director, Human Resources

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Calendar

The NTEU ACT Division webpage is here.

It includes a Calendar showing events for the ACT Division, as a whole, and for each campus Branch and Sub-Branch in the ACT.

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Branch contact details

ANU Branch
G Block, Old Administration Area
McDonald Place
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200

Tel: (02) 6125 2043
Fax: (02) 6125 8137
Email: act@nteu.org.au

Industrial Staff:
Peter Davidson, pdavidson@nteu.org.au
Vivienne Bryant, vbryant@nteu.org.au

Organiser and Communication Officer:
Jane Maze, jmaze@nteu.org.au

Organiser & Membership Services:
David Pietsch, ACTDiv@nteu.org.au

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Branch Executive 2008-2010

President:
Ian Morgan (Professor, Research School of Biological Sciences)
ph (02) 6125 4671
ian.morgan@anu.edu.au

Vice-President (Academic Staff):
Stephen Dovers (Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society)
Ph: 6125 0669
stephen.dovers@anu.edu.au

Vice-President (General Staff):
Deborah Veness (Manager, Education Innovation Office)
Ph: 6125 9504
deborah.veness@anu.edu.au

Secretary: Vacant

Committee Members:
Lisa Alleva (BaMBi)
Antoinette Bosman (CBE)
Alec Gray (Facilities and Services)
Matthew King (RSBS)
Melissa Lovell (RSSS)
Ewan Maidment (RSPAS)
David Marr (Statistical Services)
Robert Phillips (BoZo)
Peter Pinnington (ANU Medical School)
Bill Speed (RSBS)
Susan West (School of Music)

National and Divisional Councillors:
Stephen Dovers
Deborah Veness

Branch Committee 2008-2010

ANU Branch Committee members contact details

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Area Contacts

Most workplaces at ANU have an NTEU Area Contact. If you work in an area without an Area Contact, please contact David Vincent-Pietsch on 6125 2043 or email act@nteu.org.au

Area Contacts at ANU

Dr	Stephen	Milnes	Academic Skills and Learning Centre, Division of Registrar and Student Services
Ms	Rebecca	Thornberry	Administrative Program, Division of Information
Mr	Michael	Rawling	ANU College of Law
Mr	Peter	Pinnington	ANU Medical School, Rural Health Unit
Ms	Diane	Kossatz	Automated Reasoning Group, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering
Ms	Jennifer	Sheehan	Cartography Unit, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Ms	Lindy	Orthia	Centre for Public Awareness of Science
Ms	Colleen	Donaldson	Client Services Unit, Facilities and Services
Ms	Judith	Pabian	College of Asia and the Pacific
Dr	Peter	Strazdins	Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Dr	Sally	Sargeson	Department of Political and Social Change, College of Asia and the Pacific
Dr	Andrew	Walker	Department of Political and Social Change, College of Asia and the Pacific
Mr	Lorenzo	White	Department of chemistry
Ms	Deborah	Veness	Education Innovation Office, ANU College of Business & Economics
Mr	Derek	Corrigan	Electronics Workshop, Research School of Earth Sciences
Mr	Alec	Gray	Facilities and Services
Dr	Stephen	Dovers	Fenner School of Environment & Society
Dr	Janet	Stein	Fenner School of Environment & Society
Mr	John	Stein	Fenner School of Environment & Society
Dr	Ian	Morgan	Group Leader-Visual Sciences Group, Research School of Biology (Building 46)
Dr	Charles	Hocart	Mass Spectrometry Facility, Research School of Biology (Building 46)
Mr	Bill	Speed	Mechanical Workshop, Research School of Biology (Building 46)
Mr	Matthew	King	Mechanical Workshop, Research School of Biology (Building 46)
Mrs	Marie	Knight	Menzies Library, Scholarly Information Services / Library
Mrs	Joan	Stivala	Molecular Bioscience Division, John Curtin School of Medical Research
Ms	Catherine	Stewart-Moore	Molecular Genetics and Evolution/Visual Science, Research School of Biological Sciences
Prof	Kenneth	Freeman	Mount Stromlo Observatory, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Ms	Annie	Carroll	National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Ms	Roslyn	Hales	National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Prof	Dorothy	Broom	National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Ms	Fran	Blackbourn	National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Mrs	Kathleen	Hicks	Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering
Mr	Robert	Brookfield	Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Siding Spring Observatory
Mr	Tony	Herlt	Research School of Chemistry
Mr	Ewan	Maidment	Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Ms	Melissa	Lovell	Research School of Social Sciences
Mrs	Olivia	Wenholz	Research School of Social Sciences
Mrs	Christine	Harney	Scholarly Information Services / Library
Ms	Antoinette	Bosman	School of Accounting & Business Information Systems,ANU College of Business & Economics
Dr	Ashley	Carruthers	School of Archaelogy and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts
Dr	Lisa	Alleva	School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science
Mr	Bob	Phillips	School of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science
Dr	David	Rowell	School of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science
Mr	Peter	O'keefe	School of Management, Marketing & International Bus, ANU College of Business & Economics
Ms	Susan	West	School of Music
Ms	Marguerite	Boland	School of Music
Dr	Alastair	Greig	School of Social Sciences
Dr	Rick	Kuhn	School of Social Sciences
Mrs	Ana Maria	Manzano	Social Sciences and Humanities Cluster, Scholarly Information Services
Mr	David	Marr	Statistical Services
Ms	Christine	Keogh	Systems and Desktop Services, Division of Information
Mr	Ambrose	Andrews	The Fenner School of Environment & Society
Dr	Mervyn	Aston	Visiting Student Program, International Education Office

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Enterprise Agreements

The varied Australian National University Enterprise Agreement 2005-2009

Click here to download varied ANU Enterprise Agreement 2005-2009

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Casual Academics' Campaign

A key priority of the NTEU is to improve the lot of casual employees. In 2007-8, NTEU is running a national campaign on casual academic employment with these two objectives: improving conditions directly and ensuring universities provide opportunities for casuals to attain more secure jobs.

NTEU has created a new website, www.unicasual.com.au, so you can easily access a wide range of information you need about employment as a casual.

Casual Academics' Conferences
NTEU will hold a National Casuals' Conference and a series of Division Casuals' Conferences this year as a focus for consultation with casual members on how to improve their working conditions and career paths. The ACT Division Conference will be held on Monday 4 June from 11 am to 3.30 pm in the Meeting Room at University House. Lunch and drinks will be provided. If you would like to know more about the conference, please contact Jane Maze at jmaze@nteu.org.au.

Casual Membership
Casual staff can join NTEU for a nominal fee and get the full range of membership services. These include individual assistance with problems in the workplace and the opportunity to have input to what is in your Enterprise Agreement.

Members also get a wide range of extra benefits including discounted health insurance, loans, computers, travel, shopping, and legal and financial advice. You can download a Casual membership form here.

Casuals' employment conditions at ANU

Casual Sessional Academic Staff employment conditions

This document outlines a policy agreed between NTEU and ANU on conditions and reasonable workloads for casual academic staff in the Faculty of Arts. In 2008 we will be seeking to have similar conditions included in the Enterprise Agreement, to extend coverage to all casual academic staff and improve enforceability. Please contact the NTEU Office at 6125 2043 if you need help negotiating about your workload or conditions.

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Feedback

We would love to hear your ideas on how to improve this website. If you have any suggestions, or have come across a broken link or error, please email Jane Maze at jmaze@nteu.org.au.

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