Ian Dalziel Cartoon: The Hobbit and the TPPA
Opinion – Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa Does John Key have a firm grasp on the big picture?
Industrial Relations
Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 33
Press Release – NZTEU Union members at Victoria University of Wellington won an extra week of paid parental leave when negotiations concluded with their employer last week. Members will get to vote on whether to ratify the new agreements next week. TEU organiser Nicki Wilford …
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 23
Column – Association of University Staff Negotiations begin at Otago Uni It has been a slow start to collective bargaining at New Zealand’s universities this year with only Victoria, Massey and, as of this morning, Otago beginning negotiations. The union bargaining team at Otago will focus …
Cigarette Plain Packaging Could Come Unstuck
Press Release – First Union Plans to introduce plain packaging of cigarettes could come unstuck as a result of New Zealand’s involvement in trade talks – which so far remain in secret.
Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 8
Press Release – Tertiary Education Union Employment negotiations for thousands of university staff at seven of New Zealand’s eight universities will begin in three months’ time, and union members are already working out what the main issues they need to see addressed to improve their working …
TEU Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 7
Column – Association of University Staff PBRF becomes corporate welfare programme The government’s approach to performance based research funding is a quarter of a billion dollar corporate welfare scheme according to Scoop journalist Gordon Campbell. Mr Campbell published an article earlier …
China Could Have Sued Under FTA If Crafar Farm Sale Declined
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey If the New Zealand government had declined the Shanghai Pengxin purchase of the Crafar farm it could have faced an international law suit for breaching its free trade agreement with China, says University of Auckland law professor Jane Kelsey. ‘When China’s …
