Three pay rises and a lump sum for WITT members
Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 13 The Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (WITT) and TEU members have ratified a collective agreement that will give the union members a 0.75 percent pay rise...
View ArticleTertiary education costs rise dramatically
Consumer Price Index figures released this week show the cost of tertiary education recording its highest rise since at least 2004. Figures from the Statistics New Zealand website, which extend back to...
View ArticlePrice rises hitting families hard – CTU media release
CTU Media Release 18 July 2011 The 5.3% rise in CPI for the year to June is another sign of working people being hit hard by the combination of GST and other government charges, plus big increases in...
View ArticleTax Switch Created Many Problems – CTU media release
CTU Media Release 12 October 2011 The New Zealand Treasury has revealed that the tax switch has created a $1.1 billion hole in the already weakened Government accounts. Peter Conway, CTU Secretary and...
View ArticleTEU wins special PBRF rules for earthquake-shaken researchers
Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 38 The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has announced that it will adopt three of TEU’s proposed recommendations for conducting the 2012 PBRF Quality Evaluation of...
View ArticleEducators keep ahead of mean wage rises
The Labour Cost Index statistics released this week show that pay rates for education professionals rose 1.0 percent in the September quarter, compared to a rise of only 0.6 percent for all workers...
View Article2012 National Biennial Pacific Forum
The Forum will be held at the Fale Pasifika, The University of Auckland on Tuesday 17th April from 9.00am – 5.00pm. The rules provide for one member from each branch to be funded nationally. We are...
View ArticleHui-ā-Motu 2012, WITT
Hui-ā-Motu will be held at WITT, New Plymouth, from Friday 23 March to Sunday 25 March. TEU Travel Policy This policy applies to all members of the Tertiary Education Union and may be changed from...
View ArticleGovt signals another austerity budget
The minister of finance, Bill English, announced this week that he will spend $800 million less in this year’s budgetthan the Prime Minister John Key was forecasting only six weeks ago. That could be...
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...
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