For What We're Worth - TEU bargaining at UoA

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...

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 envi...

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 Nat...

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, o...

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 m...

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 hist...

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 mem...

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: ho...