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

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  2. 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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    Fact Sheet
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    NTEU Analysis of 2013 Federal Budget

    Published: 23 May, 2013
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Community Announcements 15 May 2013

    Posted 15 May 2013 by Ken Norling (Vic Division)

    If you have anything you'd like included in this listing, please contact the NTEU Vic Division at knorling@vic.nteu.org.au. If you would like to receive these announcements as a weekly email, go to ...

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  6. 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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  7. NTEU members at La Trobe win the right to take industrial action!

    Posted 14 May 2013 by Chris Latham (La Trobe University)

    Thank you to all the NTEU members who voted in the recent industrial action ballot. 

    The results are in!  NTEU members have won the right to take industrial action in the following forms:

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  8. National protests tomorrow for the restoration of university cuts

    Posted 13 May 2013 by Jeannie Rea (NTEU National Office)

    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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  9. Government cuts will turn students away

    Posted 8 May 2013 by Carmel Shute (NTEU National Office)

    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 ...

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  10. 7th edition of edXpress just out

    Posted 8 May 2013 by Jeannie Rea (NTEU National Office)

    7th edition of edXpress just out

    Catch up with the latest edition of edXpress, the free monthly e-bulletin from NTEU with news and views on what’s happening on our campuses around the ...

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