About For What We're Worth - TEU bargaining at UoA
Bargaining updates and union news from The University of Auckland's Tertiary Education Union Branch.
Content is provided by members of UoA's TEU Branch and does not seek to speak for the TEU.
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For the eighth episode of ‘For What We’re Worth’ we have a special episode recorded at Friday the 18th of October's strike.
Huge thanks to everyone who took part in the strike and rally! In this episode we interviewed attendees to hear their reasons for striking. As our update we have clips of the speeches from our organiser Nicole Wallace, Labour MP Deborah Russell, and Green Party MP Lawrence Xu Nan.
Contact our organiser Nicole at nicole.wallace@teu.ac.nz or any member of our branch here.
Are you a member who makes less than the 2024 living wage of $27.80 an hour and would like to talk to us about what making the Living Wage would mean for you? Get in touch with us via this form.
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Credits:
All of our members and supporters at the rally - Interviewees
Speeches – Nicole Wallace – Organiser
Lawrence Xu Nan - Green Party MP
Deborah Russell - Deborah Russell
UoA TEU podcast Team:
Callie V – Interviews and Intro
Tim Signal - Interviews and Editing
James Love – Interviews
Leon Salter
Rosaria Price
Oreen Almeida
Andy Fey
Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay
Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay
1 Oct 2024
Economics of Bargaining in Tertiary Education
This is the seventh episode of ‘For What We’re Worth’.
In this instalment Nicole Wallace provides an update on the three bargaining sessions for Medical Academics, Security and Gardeners, and Academics on the 23rd and 24th of September then Leon Salter talks to Brent Burmester, the new co-President, (academic) of the TEU Branch at UoA on the economics of bargaining within a tertiary education environment.
Contact our organizer Nicole at nicole.wallace@teu.ac.nz or any member of our branch here.
Are you a member who makes less than the 2024 living wage of $27.80 an hour and would like to talk to us about what making the Living Wage would mean for you? Get in touch with us via this form.
Not yet a member? Join TEU (https://teu.ac.nz/join/)
Credits:
Bargaining Update – Nicole Wallace – Organiser
Interview – Brent Burmester, co-President, (academic) of the TEU Branch at UoA
UoA TEU podcast Team:
Leon Salter - Interview
James Love – Intro and editing
Callie V – editing
Rosaria Price
Oreen Almeida
Andy Fey
Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay
Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay
16 Sept 2024
Precarity and Collective Action
This is the sixth episode of ‘For What We’re Worth’. In this episode we do not have an update on bargaining, and instead have two interviews.
In the first interview, James Love talks to Juno Barnett-Collins on precarity, precarious workers and how the current round of bargaining claims addresses people who find themselves in these situations.
Then Callie V. then chats with Sandra Grey, the TEU National Secretary on collective action.
Are you a member who makes less than the 2024 living wage of $27.80 an hour and would like to talk to us about what making the Living Wage would mean for you? Get in touch with us via this form.
Not yet a member? Join TEU (https://teu.ac.nz/join/)
If you have any other questions regarding the podcast submit them using this form.
If you want to get in touch with the bargaining team or Auckland TEU branch: click here.
Credits:
Interviews:
Juno Barnett-Collins, a fixed term employee at UoA
Sandra Grey, TEU National Secretary
UoA TEU podcast Team:
James Love - Interview
Callie V.– Interview and Editing
Rosaria Price - Intro
Leon Salter
Oreen Almeida
Andy Fey
Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay
Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay
3 Sept 2024
Industrial Operations and Strategy
In the fifth episode of ‘For What We’re Worth’, Nicole Wallace provides an update on meetings held on the 22 & 27, August, and 02 September 2024. These meetings encompassed the employer’s offer on buying and selling leave, technical issues and a claim to set-up a working group to address technical staff pay.
Leon Salter talks to Daniel Benson-Guiu, TEU, Assistant National Secretary – Industrial, on industrial operations and strategy at the TEU as it relates to tertiary institutions.
Are you a member who makes less than the 2024 living wage of $27.80 an hour and would like to talk to us about what making the Living Wage would mean for you? Get in touch with us via this form.
Not yet a member? Join TEU (https://teu.ac.nz/join/)
If you have any other questions regarding the podcast submit them using the form
If you want to get in touch with the bargaining team or Auckland TEU branch: click here
Credits:
Bargaining Update – Nicole Wallace – Organiser
Interview – Daniel Benson-Guiu, TEU, Assistant National Secretary – Industrial
UoA TEU podcast Team:
Leon Salter - Interview and Editing
Callie V - Intro and Editing Support
Rosaria Price
James Love - Editing Support
Oreen Almeida
Andy Fey
Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay
Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay
18 Aug 2024
Performance Pay
In the fourth episode of For What We’re Worth, Nicole Wallace updates us on bargaining meetings from the 14th of August and the employer’s pay offer. Then, James Love talks to Noel Zeng, University of Auckland Branch Co-President and member of bargaining committee on performance-based pay, TUPU and step increases.
Proposed Stepped payment progression for professional staff - Link
Are you a member who makes less than the 2024 living wage of $27.80 an hour and wants to talk to us about what making the Living Wage would mean for you? Get in touch with us via this form
Not yet a member? Join TEU (https://teu.ac.nz/join/)
If you have any other questions regarding the podcast submit them using the form (https://forms.gle/qY2JbhU8wvmVa7S38)
If you want to get in touch with the bargaining team or Auckland TEU branch: click here
Credits:
Bargaining Update – Nicole Wallace - Organiser
Interview – Noel Zeng, University of Auckland Branch Co-President
UOA TEU podcast Team:
James Love - Interview and Editing
Rosaria Price - Intro
Callie V
Oreen Almeida
Leon Salter
Andy Fey
Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay
Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay
5 Aug 2024
The History of Unionism
In the third episode of For What We’re Worth, we have an update from Andy Hipkiss and Nicole Wallace on the bargaining meetings in Late July. These sessions covered Academics and Medical academics, along with living wage and performance pay (tupu). Then, Oreen Almeida speaks with Paul Taillon, Senior Lecturer in History at UoA and former Auckland branch president for the TEU. Paul is a union historian and talks about the birth of unionism and its journey over the last one hundred and fifty years to the modern bargaining processes of today both in Aotearoa and overseas.
Are you a member who makes less than the 2024 living wage of $27.80 an hour and wants to talk to us about what making the Living Wage would mean for you? Get in touch with us via this form
Not yet a member? Join TEU (https://teu.ac.nz/join/)
If you have any other questions regarding the podcast submit them using the form
If you want to get in touch with the bargaining team or Auckland TEU branch: click here
Credits:
Bargaining Update – Andy Hipkiss and Nicole Wallace - Organisers
Interview – Dr Paul Taillon – Senior Lecturer in History, UoA
UOA TEU podcast Team:
Oreen Almeida - Interview and Editing
Leon Salter - Intro
Callie V – Editing support
James Love - Editing support
Rosaria Price
Andy Fey
Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay
Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay
21 Jul 2024
The Value of a Collective Contract
This week For What We’re Worth receives an update from Nicole Wallace on the 9th of July’s Security and Gardener’s bargaining session. Then Callie V speaks with Jane Kostanich, a lifelong organizer who has negotiated collective agreements In Universities, Wānanga, Polytech and private training establishments about what bargaining looks like from a factual and procedural perspective.
Are you a member who makes less than the 2024 living wage of $27.80 an hour and wants to talk to us about what making the Living Wage would mean for you? Get in touch with us via this form
Not yet a member? Join TEU (https://teu.ac.nz/join/)
If you have any other questions regarding the podcast submit them using the form (https://forms.gle/qY2JbhU8wvmVa7S38)
If you want to get in touch with the bargaining team or Auckland TEU branch: click here
Credits:
Bargaining Update - Nicole Wallace - Organizer
Interview - Jane Kostanich - TEU organizer since 2007
UOA TEU podcast Team:
Callie V. - Interview and Editing
James Love - Intro
Rosaria Price
Oreen Almeida
Leon Salter
Andy Fey
Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay
Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay
7 Jul 2024
The Life Cycle Of Bargaining
In the first episode of What We’re Worth, a podcast documenting the University Of Auckland TEU branch’s bargaining process for a new Collective Agreement, we get an update from Andy Hipkiss, from the first set of bargaining meetings that began on July 4th 2024. Then James Love speaks with Sean Sturm, a TEU member who has been on the bargaining team since 2011 about the life cycle of bargaining: how bargaining works, how the team is composed, and what to expect from the bargaining process this year.
Are you a member who makes less than the 2024 living wage of $27.80 an hour and want to talk to us about what making the Living Wage would mean for you? Get in touch with us via this form: https://forms.gle/qY2JbhU8wvmVa7S38
Not yet a member? Join TEU
If you have any other questions regarding the podcast submit them using the form (https://forms.gle/qY2JbhU8wvmVa7S38 )
If you want to get in touch with the bargaining team or Auckland TEU branch:
https://teu.ac.nz/our-people/branches/universities/university-of-auckland/
Credits:
Bargaining Update - Andy Hipkiss - Organizer
Interview - Sean Sturm - Bargaining Team representative (Academic Staff)
UOA TEU podcast Team:
Rosaria Price - Intro
James Love - Interview and Editing
Callie V.
Oreen Almeida
Leon Salter
Andy Fey
Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay
Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay
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