This year’s Council was the first following the national leadership change 12 months ago. It took place against a backdrop of an increasingly bleak industrial and political landscape for the higher education sector and unions generally, following the surprise re-election of the Coalition Government in May. More...
Over 290 staff members, both casual and permanent staff, have signed a petition demanding that casuals in the Faculty of Arts be paid for their attendance at lectures. Tutors attending the lectures for the course that they are tutoring is crucial for teaching and it must be paid. More...
National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) recently undertook a time and wages inspection at private higher education provider, Academy of Information Technology (AIT). This inspection found that the casual academic teaching staff had been engaged on flat hourly rates of pay which did not correspond with correct rates set out in the Educational Services (Post-Secondary) Award 2010.AIT has worked quickly and constructively with NTEU to resolve the underpayment issue for its current and past casual academic teaching staff. More...
The NTEU’s National Council has recently adopted 4 resolutions to alter it’s rules. These are about, amongst other things, term limits for paid office-bearers, the closing time for ballots in elections, nomination forms, abolition of Branch Treasurer positions, and financial management provisions. More...
By Patrick Atack. The international officer at the UK’s National Union of Students has written an open letter in protest at the cuts to that position, and others, announced this week in a letter to the body’s membership. More...
The president of the Oxford Union has bowed to pressure to resign after a blind student was dragged by his ankles from a debate event by a security guard. More...
Staff due to walk out next week and there could be further action next term. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of California system’s new union for academic researchers (such as project scientists, specialists, professional researchers and coordinators of public programs) reached a tentative deal on a first contract. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Full- and part-time professors at the University of New Mexico voted to form a union affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors, they announced late last week. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Adjunct faculty members at St. Petersburg College in Florida voted, 269 to 187, to form a union affiliated with Service Employees International Union, they announced this week. More...
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