NTEU’s Enterprise Agreement with the Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Medical Health sets a new standard for pay and conditions in the NTEU Research Institutes Branch. More...
6 août 2018
6 août 2018
NTEU welcomes inquiry into sexual harassment in the workplace (Advocate 25 02)
In the wake of inquiries into sexual assault and harassment of students in universities and the Defence Forces, high profile harassment cases in Australia and the US, and the latest results of the Australian Sexual Harassment Telephone Survey, the Sex Discrimination Commissioner has announced a 12 month Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces. More...
6 août 2018
Ending discrimination of workers employed in faith based organisations (Advocate 25 02)
NTEU delegates at the ACTU Congress in July will be asked to support a motion in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer (LGBTIQ+) workers. More...
6 août 2018
Unlocking democratic activism of university casuals (Advocate 25 02)
Unlocking the spirit of democracy was considered by educator and philosopher John Dewey to be essential for combatting “vested interests” that are “powerfully on the side of the status quo”. True democracy, Dewey argued, means that everyone should have the right to have a say in how their work environment is run. More...
6 août 2018
A&TSI higher education funding (Advocate 25 02)
The release of the 2018-19 Federal Budget saw a small but welcome budget increase to the supplementary funding allocation and forward estimates attributed to the Indigenous Student Assistance Grants (ISAG) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Support; administered through the Indigenous Student Success Program (ISSP). More...
6 août 2018
NTEU at 25 – One era ends & another begins (Advocate 25 02)
October 1st this year marks 25 years since the formation of NTEU. It also marks a quarter of a century since I was given the privilege of being NTEU General Secretary, having spent the previous 10 years as General Secretary of the Union of Australia College Academics (UACA). More...
6 août 2018
Unfinished business for Australia – & NTEU (Advocate 25 02)
For my final Advocate editorial*, I could have written on the need to change the industrial laws in favour of workers and our unions; to organise more effectively to increase job security; to counter the persistence of sexism and inequality for women; to again make the case for free tertiary tuition and adequate public funding; to plea for members to get involved in university governance and demand democracy and accountability; and I certainly could have written on academic freedom and our rights and responsibilities to challenge the status quo through our teaching, research and engagement. More...
6 août 2018
Hundreds of staff strike at Melbourne (Advocate 25 02)
As thousands of unionists marched to Change the Rules this May, staff at the University of Melbourne walked off the job in one of the most successful strikes at the University in recent memory. More...
6 août 2018
Bargaining update (Advocate 25 02)
Agreements at the University of Queensland (UQ), University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), and Charles Darwin University (CDU) are close to settlement and NTEU recently reached agreement with the Australian Catholic University (ACU) and University of Tasmania (UTAS). More...
6 août 2018
University Funding Freeze
Based on data obtained from the Department of Education and Training under a Freedom of Information request, the ABC today published a story by Dan Conifer entitled University funding freeze hits regional campuses worst, which shows how much the Department expects each university’s funding to be reduced as a consequence of the funding freeze announced by Senator Birmingham in December 2018. More...
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