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   Casualisation “the dirty little secret of university expansion”, union to tell public parliamentary hearings into insecure employment bill

   Posted 24 May 2013 by Grahame McCulloch (NTEU National Office)

   A casual academic, who received an award for teaching excellence from the University of Sydney, has been so poor she lived on the balcony of an elderly man, looking after his toileting and other ...

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   0 comments • Tags: higher education, dumb cuts, media release, casuals, women
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   General Meeting to Endorse the Log of Claims.

   Posted 24 May 2013 by Sean O'Brien (Macquarie University)

   Member,

   After all our consultation meetings it is time to endorse the Macquarie Branch Log of Claims. Please see the attached poster for all the information regarding this meeting.

    

   Thanks ...

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   General Meeting to Endorse the Log of Claims

   Published: 24 May, 2013
   Tags: EB6, endorsement, Log of Claims, MQ.
   

   Member, After all our consultation meetings it is time to endorse the Macquarie Branch Log of Claims. Please see the attached poster for all the information regarding this meeting. Thanks Sean O'Brien Branch Organiser?

   0 comments • Tags: EB6, Endorse, Log of Claims
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   NTEU Analysis of the 2013-14 Federal Budget

   Posted 23 May 2013 by Jeannie Rea (NTEU National Office)

   The NTEU Analysis of the 2013-14 Federal Budget, prepared by National Policy and Research Coordinator Paul Kniest, is now available for download:

   This analysis clearly demonstrates that:

   • Over ...

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   NTEU Analysis of 2013 Federal Budget

   Published: 23 May, 2013
   Tags: Budget,
   

   1 comment • Tags: dumb cuts, Federal Budget
4. 

   Destination Fiji - a vacation from workers' rights

   Posted 22 May 2013 by Grahame McCulloch (NTEU National Office)

   Bula!

   Fiji is famous for its sandy white beaches, blue waters, palm trees, sunshine and smiling faces. But behind the island beauty lies a much uglier reality.

   Since Commodore Frank Bainimarama seized power of the South Pacific nation in 2006, the regime has systematically stripped workers of their wages and conditions.

   Now, over 60 per cent of Fijian wage earners are living below the poverty line, hotel workers earn less than $3 an hour, and workers vocal in opposition to the regime have been threatened and assaulted.

   We can support the people of Fiji get their island paradise

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   0 comments • Tags: Fiji, ACTU
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   Federal Court reinstates university professor sacked in sham redundancy

   Posted 20 May 2013 by Carmel Shute (NTEU National Office)

   The Federal Court has ordered the reinstatement of Professor Judith Bessant at RMIT University in Melbourne – a judgement that the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) welcomes as a warning ...

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   10 comments • Tags: higher education, RMIT, Federal Court, sacking, media release
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   Abbott’s smoke and mirrors budget plan hits education hard

   Posted 17 May 2013 by Jeannie Rea (NTEU National Office)

   The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) today warned that Federal Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, is hiding the range and breadth of funding cuts planned by the Coalition should it win ...

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   0 comments • Tags: dumb cuts, higher education, media release, federal election
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   General Meeting EBA Log of Claims

   Posted 16 May 2013 by Sean O'Brien (Macquarie University)

    

   Dear member,

    

   The Macquarie Branch of the NTEU is holding a General Meeting to discuss our log of claims for the next round of Enterprise Bargaining. Over the last few months we have ...

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   General Meeting EBA Log of Claims

   Published: 16 May, 2013
   Tags: EB6, General Meeting, Log of Claims, MQ,
   

   Dear member, The Macquarie Branch of the NTEU is holding a General Meeting to discuss our log of claims for the next round of Enterprise Bargaining. Over the last few months we have been holding members meetings to gain an idea on what members would l

   0 comments • Tags: EB6, General Meeting, Log of Claims, MQ
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   NTEU protests call for the restoration of $2.3bn cut from higher education

   Posted 15 May 2013 by Adam Knobel (NSW Division)

   Over 700 protestors called for the restoration of the latest $2.3bn cuts to university and student funding at a rally this afternoon in Sydney’s Victoria Park. Staff from the University of ...

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   0 comments • Tags: media release, dumb cuts, NSW
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   NTEU welcomes Greens and Andrew Wilkie’s opposition to uni cuts legislation

   Posted 14 May 2013 by Carmel Shute (NTEU National Office)

   The Greens and independent MP Andrew Wilkie this morning announced their support for the National Tertiary Education Union’s ‘uni cuts- dumb cuts’ campaign and declared their ...

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   0 comments • Tags: dumb cuts, media release, higher education, students
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    Protest tomorrow to call for the restoration of university cuts

    Posted 13 May 2013 by Adam Knobel (NSW Division)

    The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is urging everyone who cares about higher education to join national protests tomorrow (Tuesday 14 May), to coincide with the Federal Government bringing ...

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    0 comments • Tags: NSW, dumb cuts, media release

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