Local NTEU delegates from the School of Culture and Communications in the University of Melbourne are delighted to report that the Head of School has recently approved a significant improvement to the Sessional Examiner Payment Package. More...
During July this year, all NTEU members working at higher education institutions will be emailed a link to participate in the 4th biennial State of the Uni Survey. We encourage you to share your experiences and have your voice heard. More...
NTEU has secured $65,000 in back pay, superannuation and long service leave for a casual academic member at RMIT University who had been underpaid. More...
Since Lenin, the soporific Long Boom of Menzies brought about the slow death of revolutionary politics, the near-paralysed, relaxed and comfortable Howard years saw the decline and fall of political reform, and the prolonged declining of nearly thirty years of economic growth tailing off under the ATM government has seen the near-death of politics itself, judging from reports online of the 2019 Federal Election. More...
Some 1.5 million students, teachers and administrative personnel from higher education institutions rallied in the capital, Brasília, in Belo Horizonte, Salvador, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and cities in many other states in the first massive protest since extreme right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro took office in January. More...
The answers to those two questions are possibly and probably not. Risks to our safety are usually visible and obvious in the physical environment and you can, and should, make yourself aware of them and report them. Are there risks of trips and falls? Are the steps slippery? Is the lighting adequate? If you work in old buildings it may be that there are invisible hazards lurking there. More...
Recently, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), released the Global Assessment – Summary for Policy Makers. The Assessment, the first of its kind, investigated the state of nature, in terms of its capacity to support future human wellbeing. More...
Around the world, governments of all persuasions, big and small, are declaring a ‘climate emergency’, acknowledging that we are quickly running out of time to reduce carbon emissions and slow global warming. In May, the City of Sydney became the 26th local Australian government to do so, and it is expected more will follow. More...
In August last year, the NTEU reported that two in three people employed by Australian universities do not have secure employment. In other words, over half the work conducted in universities is undertaken by employees who do not have an ongoing contract. Of these people, 43% are employed on a casual basis, while 22% are engaged on a fixed-term contract. More...
On 18 December 2018, University of Wollongong (UOW) staff and students woke to the news that UOW had signed an MOU with the Ramsay Centre to offer a Bachelor Degree in Western Civilisation. We were completely blindsided by the announcement. More...
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