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  1. 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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  2. University cuts are real cuts with real consequences, says Union

    Posted 26 April 2013 by Jeannie Rea (NTEU National Office)

    An analysis of the cuts to university funding released by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) today challenges the Prime Minister’s characterisation of these cuts as being nothing more ...

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    Uni Cuts Real Cuts

    Published: 26 Apr, 2013
    Tags: dumb cuts,

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  3. “Dumb cuts – dumber country.” Union appeals to University Vice Chancellors over $2.3b cuts to higher education

    Posted 15 April 2013 by Jeannie Rea (NTEU National Office)

    The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is appealing to Australian universities not to cut staff as a result of the $900 million ‘efficiency dividend’ cuts announced on the weekend ...

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  4. “Will teach for food” sessional campaign takes out ACTU Award

    Posted 10 April 2013 by edXpress (edXpress)

    On March 6, the NTEU’s sessionals campaign at Swinburne University won the prestigious ACTU Award for the Best Workplace Campaign in 2012. Division Industrial Officer and campaign leader, Josh Cullinan, pictured here with Dustin Halse (centre) and Amie Watson (right), told edXpress that the starting point had been the late payment of sessional

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  5. Give the new intake of university students the support they need, says the National Tertiary Education Union

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

    The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) congratulates the thousands of school leavers and mature age students who received a first-round offer of a university place today.

    “These new ...

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  6. ACOLA Report highlights investment needed to fix Australian research careers

    Posted 15 January 2013 by Carmel Shute (NTEU National Office)

    The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has welcomed the release of a report today by the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) which has confirmed that job insecurity is the number ...

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  7. Lack of job security a real issue for Australian universities

    Posted 4 December 2012 by Matthew McGowan (NTEU National Office)

    The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has challenged the Australian Industry Group’s (AIG) assertion in today’s Australian Financial Review that insecure employment is not a major ...

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  8. Sessionals Campaigns Update

    Posted 27 November 2012 by Josh Cullinan (Swinburne University of Technology)

    Earlier this year NTEU launched a mass campaign for justice for sessional staff at Swinburne University. As well as significant wins, our fight continues in the court rooms of Fair Work Australia. ...

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  9. Greens’ Fair Work Amendment on insecure employment would mean a fairer future, says National Tertiary Education Union

    Posted 26 November 2012 by Grahame McCulloch (NTEU National Office)

    Greens’ Fair Work Amendment on insecure employment would mean a fairer future, says National Tertiary Education Union

    The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) says the Fair Work Amendment ...

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  10. Sessionals – Disputes over Late Pay, Casualisation, Pay for All Work

    Posted 29 July 2012 by Josh Cullinan (Swinburne University of Technology)

    NTEU referred several disputes over the rights and conditions of employment for sessionals to Fair Work Australia in June. Two Hearings have been held and a further Hearing is scheduled for Thursday. ...

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