Inequality growing issue for workers
CTU economist Bill Rosenberg says recent reports on income inequality show thatincome inequality rose again in the year to June 2011, and is now at its highest level ever in New Zealand. The report on...
View ArticleEnglish language staff may lose jobs as Navitas moves in
Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 32 The University of Canterbury plans to shut down its English language programme and make all seven staff redundant. It has given staff just ten days to give feedback on the...
View ArticleSubmission on Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid...
Submission of the Tertiary Education Union to the Government Administration Select Committee on the “Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave) Amendment Bill” 5 October 2012 For...
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ELECTION: Women’s reps on the Industrial and Professional Committee
There are three candidates standing for the two positions of women’s rep on the Industrial and Professional Committee. Below is information about each of the three candidates, and an explanation of how...
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TEU voters pick national leaders this week
TEU is holding four elections this week and next. Below is information about each of the candidates for each election. General staff representative on Council Scott Walters from Lincoln University and...
View ArticleProposed new employment laws to drive down work-rights
Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 38 Proposed new employment laws announced by the government this week make it easier for employers to walk away from negotiations and harder for workers to take industrial...
View ArticleRecommendations to TEU annual conference 2012
That the TEU conference expresses serious concerns about Government policy to make ITP funding contestable. Shifting public money to private and for profit providers results in reducing the capacity...
View ArticleWomen’s Fiesta focuses on child poverty
“By 1999 child poverty among those left out — those on welfare benefits – was terrible, and the pressures on foodbanks and budgeting and other social services continued a relentless upward drift.”...
View ArticleTEU submits to extend Paid Parental Leave
Extending paid parental leave from three months to six is good for a number of reasons says TEU policy analyst Jo Scott. “It is good for children and will support their families, it is good for the...
View Article‘Choose staff not consultants’ TEU tells Lincoln
Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 13 Lincoln spent $1.2 million dollars last year on external consultants and has already spent a further $200,000 this year. TEU organiser Cindy Doull obtained the information...
View ArticleCanterbury councils told to cooperate
The tertiary education minister’s decision to appoint Lincoln University’s acting chancellor Tony Hall to the University of Canterbury’s council, Canterbury’s chancellor Dr John Wood to the Lincoln...
View ArticleTEU Victoria Branch Newsletter – August 2013
From the President Thanks to everyone who attended the stop work meetings last month over the government’s planned Employment Relations Amendment Bill and in particular to those members form VUW who...
View ArticleHow unequal is New Zealand?
Income inequality means that many people are missing out on a fair share of the income the economy generates, according to CTU economist Bill Rosenberg. “That’s exactly what has happened over the years...
View ArticlePay rises crash after financial crisis
Pay increases have crashed since the global economic crisis according to CTU economist Bill Rosenberg. Rosenberg has compared wage and price increases over the period of Global Financial Crisis and...
View ArticleClass sizes need to drop in tertiary education, too
Tertiary Update Vol 17 No 22 Labour’s new policy is kicking off a debate about class sizes with TEU calling for parties to tackle overcrowded lecture theatres. Having a smaller student to staff ratio...
View ArticleNo new money in shifty shuffle budget
In political terms this was a Shuffle Budget, says CTU economist Bill Rosenberg. “Rather than redistribute to those who most needed it from those who could afford it, the Budget shuffled money from one...
View ArticleStudent loans policed more closely than tax avoidance
Why are we chasing overseas-based student loan defaulters for thousands of dollars but not overseas-based companies for billions of dollars of tax avoidance, asks TEU national president Sandra Grey....
View ArticleAuckland University’s links to sugar tax lobby group
Last week the New Zealand Initiative put out a report criticising food taxes. The report attracted a great deal of attention but the organisation that wrote it, not so much. Many will not be aware...
View ArticleTax cuts will affect education
Conflicting promises of tax cuts threaten to undermine tertiary education, says TEU president Sandra Grey. Last week finance minister Bill English ruled out tax cuts in this year’s budget and also in...
View Article$100m for health research funding
Tertiary education researchers are welcoming a $97 million boost to health research funding. Science minister Steven Joyce and health minister Jonathan Coleman announced the Budget 2016 initiative this...
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