Academic Staff
The NTEU is the only union working exclusively in tertiary education and represents more than 26,000 academic, research and general staff across the country. NTEU has an office on all major university campuses across the country, which gives NTEU members unique access to industrial and professional assistance at the workplace.
- Individual representation
- Professional Representation
- Membership Involvement in Decision Making
- Membership Fees and Services
Individual representation
Because NTEU works exclusively in tertiary education, NTEU Industrial staff know and understand academic issues. They can provide advice, support, representation and protection on many aspects of your employment including:
- salaries and conditions,
- access to staff development and promotion,
- workloads,
- disciplinary and dismissal issues,
- intellectual property and
- redundancy.
In the third round of Enterprise Bargaining (1999-2002), NTEU delivered pay increases of between 12 - 15% over three years for its members. In the current Enterprise Bargaining round, NTEU is also seeking substantial pay increases as well as improvements in areas such as regulation of workloads, intellectual freedom, on-line teaching and learning, parental leave, bullying and job security.
Professional Representation
Professional issues and education policy are central to NTEU. The union has a team of professional staff who know the university system well and represent academic interests to the community and Government.
NTEU has been actively involved in a wide range of issues including:
- campaigning to protect university and TAFE funding,
- promoting the need for increased research funding and
- defending and promoting members rights in areas such as:
- the introduction of new technology,
- intellectual property,
- offshore teaching,
- quality assurance issues,
- consultancy work,
- international education.
Membership Involvement in Decision Making
The structure of the NTEU allows members to participate and
have input at university, state and national level through a wide range of member-based committees
and other forums.
At a national level, NTEU has both an Education Policy
Committee and Research Policy
Committee whose role, in addition to monitoring government policy in these areas, includes
representing the interests and views of members regarding education and research policy and other
related issues, and to advise the NTEU Executive and National Office on these
matters.
Membership Fees and Services
NTEU members have access to a comprehensive range of services,
benefits and discounts including high quality publications, a
variety of
training
programs (free to members),
NTEU Tax
Services, reduced subscription rates for
GrantSearch
as well as discounted travel, car, entertainment, financial and
accommodation services.
Details of all these services are outlined on our
Member Benefits
pages, and in the NTEU
Membership
Benefits Guide, which is distributed to all members.
Cost of Membership
Fees for all members, except casuals, are set as a percentage of
salary and most members’ pay 1% of salary (for fees at
your institution,
click here).
Casual fees are set at $55, $77 or $110 per year depending on
income.
Membership fees can be paid by invoice, credit card, direct
debit, cheque or payroll deduction.
Your local Branch can provide you with the membership rates
applicable at your institution.
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