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19 novembre 2018

Media Release: National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members at Two Victorian Universities to Strike on 23 October

NTEU members at Victoria University and Monash University will take strike action on Tuesday 23 October, as part of their long-running bargaining campaigns for new and improved Enterprise Agreements. More...

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19 novembre 2018

The pressures of university employment (Advocate 25 03)

All who work in universities and TAFE experience the pressure of funding cuts. Insecure work serves the interests of university management alone, while increasing workloads and ceaseless restructuring confront both professional and academic staff. The insidious undermining of academic independence constrains our capacity as public intellectuals, along with our ability to teach our students to challenge conventional wisdom. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Minister’s veto power on ARC grants is political interference (Advocate 25 03)

The revelations of the shameful intervention by Simon Birmingham, when he was Minister for Education, to politically interfere with research funding should appal everyone, but unfortunately most outside the sector will pay little attention. His actions, in secretly rejecting eleven applications that had been approved by the Australian Research Council (ARC), re-visit the actions of Brendan Nelson in 2005-2006, and demonstrate again this Government’s readiness to kowtow to the extreme right – now referred to, within their own party and more broadly, as their ‘base’. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Commitment to building a stronger union (Advocate 25 03)

This is a difficult column to write as an introduction in my new role as National Assistant Secretary. We have been through an extensive election campaign at many levels of the Union and I know that for some members you have already had too much information about me! So I will use this column to do what I love to do, talk about our Union. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Management dirty tricks make Branch stronger (Advocate 25 03)

University of Wollongong (UOW) campus rang out to ‘war cries’ on Wednesday 10 October, according to the Illawarra Mercury. ‘Whose University? Our University!’ and ‘What do we need? FAIR PAY! What do we need? SECURE WORK! What do we need? RESPECT!’. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Agreement at Lowitja (Advocate 25 03)

Staff at the Lowitja Institute, Australia’s National Institute for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Research, have voted unanimously in favour to approve their new Enterprise Agreement. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Hudson Institute moves forward with better job security & out-comes for ECRs (Advocate 25 03)

NTEU’s new Agreement with the Hudson Institute of Medical Research has maintained all major conditions of employment and includes substantial improvements to equity, flexibility, job security, employee retention and efficiency. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Bargaining update (Advocate 25 03)

As at the end of October, NTEU has finalised 31 Agreements with only 15 remaining unsettled. NTEU recently reached Agreements with the Charles Sturt University and Charles Darwin University. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Trouble at Murdoch again (Advocate 25 03)

Murdoch University recently made headlines again for all the wrong reasons – a substantial influx of international students, many with poor English language skills, and concerns about both the failure rate and plagiarism. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Advocate vol. 25 no. 3 out now

The final edition of NTEU Advocate for 2018 (vol. 25, no. 3) is now available. Members will begin receiving copies in the mail this week (or will receive notification by email if signed up for 'soft delivery'). More...

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