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  1. NTEU to spend $1million on election campaign to defend higher education

    Posted 18 June 2013 by Jeannie Rea (NTEU National Office)

    In an historic move, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) voted today to spend $1 million on an election campaign to defend higher education in the September federal election.

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  2. NTEU National Council protests against dumb cuts to university funding at Parliament House, Canberra

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

    This morning, 120 NTEU National Council delegates meeting in Canberra protested outside Parliament House against the cuts to university funding.

    Jeannie Rea, National NTEU President, said that ...

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  3. Fair Work Act Bullying Amendments

    Posted 17 June 2013 by Miranda Jamieson (Tas Division)

    Amendments to the Fair Work Act to provide protection against bullying have been passed. 

    The Bill was passed in the first week of June, with the bullying schedule to take effect from 1 January 2014, not 1 July 2013 as was originally proposed. 

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  4. UTAS staff vote for industrial action

    Posted 14 June 2013 by Miranda Jamieson (Tas Division)

    NTEU members at UTAS have decided to take industrial action starting this month in an attempt to improve outcomes in negotiations around their collective agreement.  The NTEU have been in negotiations with UTAS management about a new collective agreement since December 2012.

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  5. Update on EBA Negotiations

    Posted 14 June 2013 by Miranda Jamieson (Tas Division)

    EBA Negotiations occurred briefly last week in relation to matters that affect all staff, and in areas that specifically relate to professional staff, there are some positive indications that ...

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  6. Pollies urged to vote in support of universities

    Posted 5 June 2013 by Jeannie Rea (NTEU National Office)

    The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is calling on all members of the House of Representatives to actively demonstrate their support for universities by voting in favour of a motion to be ...

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  7. Peter Chapman: Life Member

    Posted 5 June 2013 by edXpress (edXpress)

    NTEU founding member, Peter Chapman, was honoured with a life membership at last year’s NTEU National Council. He told edXpress that the union was more important than ever with the decay of ...

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  8. Extremely Successful Protected Action Ballot Result!

    Posted 5 June 2013 by Miranda Jamieson (Tas Division)

    National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members at the University of Tasmania have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action over their claims for a new collective Agreement.

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  9. 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 desperate for housing she lived on the balcony of the home of an elderly man, and ...

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