The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander membership of the NTEU has climbed to its highest levels ever in the past couple of months, and is only a few new members away from reaching a key milestone. This mirrors the uptake in membership across the union to an extent; with university staff signing up due to a tough bargaining round and increasingly insecure working conditions; however it’s important to note that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff remain the most unionised in the higher education sector. Our trend of joining the union at double the rate of everyone else has continued and our strength in numbers has manifested not just in a number of solid motions going to this year’s National Council but also in some good bargaining outcomes during this round, in spite of the rest of bargaining being quite challenging. More...

The ACT Division of the NTEU is launching the NTEU SuperCasuals ACT campaign today, which aims to identify and campaign to address issues around casualisation at ACT universities. This will be a whole of Division campaign - we're trying to reach casually employed staff at all universities with campuses in the ACT. More...

On Wednesday 8 November 2017 the Department of Education and Training released a report entitled Professional accreditation: Mapping the territory.  The report (dated February 2017) was written by PhillipsKPA after being commissioned by the Higher Education Standards Panel in 2016. More...

The Fair Work Act is broken and Murdoch University did succeed in terminating the enterprise agreement. But NTEU is back bargaining at Murdoch and, even in the face of virulent opposition from managements, the NTEU is negotiating, taking action and winning through around the country. More...

NTEU has always had a free education policy consistent with Education International (EI) policy that all public education should be tuition fee free. This motion, however, positions the NTEU to advocate for a very real change in government policy. A change that challenges the reliance upon student tuition fees as the major component of university funding; from the contributions of Commonwealth Supported Place holders, to the deregulated fees in most coursework postgraduate programs to the income from the massive international student ‘market’. More...

The Union’s 2017 industrial, professional and policy work has taken place in an extremely tough political environment.
We faced the full impact of the worst aspects of the Fair Work Act with Murdoch University following the path of the mining sector and other aggressive employers in successfully seeking to terminate the 2012 Murdoch EBA while negotiations for a replacement Agreement were taking place. More...

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) for the first time ever will convene a simultaneous national meeting on Tuesday 26 September, to brief all university staff on the possible threat to their livelihoods posed by the Fair Work Commission’s decision to terminate the Murdoch University enterprise agreement. More...

The NTEU today welcomed the announcement by the Fair Work Ombudsman of plans to encourage international students to seek help over industrial issues as a first step in the right direction on addressing the chronic issues of abuse and exploitation of young student workers. More...

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is required to make a Report after it conducts an election for the NTEU. It has done so about a recent election 2017/63. In that Report, the AEC considers that Rule 72.15B is difficult to interpret or apply. The Union’s Rules are here.  NTEU will respond to that Report. More...

2017 NTEU discussion paper exploring "the practices of universities and the impact upon the quality of university governance and their obligations under the university Acts, as well as to the broader community". More...