By Andrew MacDonald. In the wake of recent renewed uncertainty about the future of the campus, National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members have reaffirmed their commitment to fighting for local jobs, and an ongoing university presence in the region. More...

By Jeannie Rea. Fortunately, over 200 union leaders responded to the call in recognition that if 85 per cent of workers were not joining unions, this is a problem that cannot be avoided or rationalised any longer.
Unfortunately, similar gatherings have been routinely held over the past three decades as private sector union membership and density dwindled, but hopefully this time it will be different. This is not to deny the successes at the same time of unions getting members, keeping members, organising and winning for workers. More...

By Jeannie Rea. NTEU joined with 20 higher education associations and unions from around the world in expressing grave concern over recent reports of widespread victimisation of members of Turkey’s higher education and research community. More...

By Paul Clifton. But this was not the usual round of complaints about how the ‘three Ms’ – marketisation, massification and managerialism – have turned higher education into a service-based industry overseen by zealous bean counters. No, the conference explored the very innards of what is a lucrative, commercially oriented system – from the incursions of multinational corporations into teaching and research, the drudgery of endless measurement, through to the soul destroying tasks of processing travel claims and accessing the stationary cupboard. More...