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Casualisation “the dirty little secret of university expansion”, union to tell public parliamentary hearings into insecure employment bill
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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NTEU Analysis of the 2013-14 Federal Budget
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:
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Senior Staff Salaries contradict pay offer to staff
Senior Staff Salaries contradict pay offer to staff
Published: 21 May, 2013
Tags: Bargaining 2013, local issues, budget cuts, EB6,
Townsville newspaper runs a story on the yawning gap between massive payrises to senior staff at JCU and the offer made to staff in enterprise bargaining
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Early Retirement Incentive Scheme
Correspondence regarding consultation about the Early Retirement Incentive Scheme (ERIS) at JCU
Published: 21 May, 2013
Tags: consultation, local issues, change management
The union wrote to JCU regarding their lack of consultation over the ERIS, and asking that management postpone the implementation of the scheme until they had talked to us.
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Federal Court reinstates university professor sacked in sham redundancy
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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Abbott’s smoke and mirrors budget plan hits education hard
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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NTEU welcomes Greens and Andrew Wilkie’s opposition to uni cuts legislation
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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QLD Uni Cuts Protests
Rallies and Protests in Queensland on Budget Day - allUni Cuts Protests in QLD
Published: 13 May, 2013
Tags: dumb cuts,
Budget Day Rallies and Protests in Queensland
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National protests tomorrow for the restoration of university cuts
The NTEU is urging everyone who cares about higher education to join national protests tomorrow (Tuesday 14 May), to coincide with the Federal Government bringing down its budget.
“Right ...
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Government cuts will turn students away
Politicians and their advisers are out of step if they still think that there are no votes in higher education, National Tertiary Education Union President, Jeannie Rea said today in response to the ...


