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General media enquiries should be directed, in the first instance, to:

Stephen Day

Communications and Campaigns Officer
Phone 04 801 4792
Mobile 021 2900 734
Email stephen.day@teu.ac.nz

Official spokespeople for the TEU are:

Dr Tom Ryan

National President Te Tumu Whakarae
Phone 04 801 5098
Mobile 021 657 059
Email: tom.ryan@teu.ac.nz

some background info on Dr Ryan

Sharn Riggs

National Secretary
Phone 04 801 5098
Mobile 027 443 8768
Email sharn.riggs@teu.ac.nz

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All rights at work under threat, Government confirms

Council of Trade Unions media release 9 September 2010 The Government is paving the way for a return to the ruthless eradication of workers’ rights according to the statement of stand-in Labour minister Pansy Wong in Parliament today, said the CTU. In response to questioning from Labour’s Darien Fenton on whether the Government was planning [...]

League tables relegate learning context

Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 34 Dr Roy Sharp told TEU last week that “We are not using a league table model.” However, what his Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has done this week is release a table of tertiary institutions ranking them from top to bottom according to how they perform against four indicators. The [...]

Redundancies continue in Otago

Tertiary education staff in Otago continue to lose jobs as the university and polytechnic push on with their restructuring plans. The Otago Daily Times reports that the University of Otago’s College of Education will designate 15 jobs redundant by the end of next year, with more position losses signalled for 2012. It also reports that [...]

University general staff to contest TEU election

Annie Barker (University of Waikato), Rui Li (Victoria University), Marian Pearson (Lincoln University) and Cerian Wagstaff (Auckland University) will contest an election for three available places for university-based representatives on TEU’s General Staff Sector Group.  Robert Watson (CPIT) and Adele Wilson (UCOL) were elected unopposed as ITP representatives to the group. The election, which TEU [...]

Student fees increase dramatically

Student associations fear most tertiary institutions will increase their fees for next year by the maximum allowed by the government. Radio New Zealand reports three tertiary institutions have raised their fees for 2011 – all by the 4 percent maximum allowed by the government. NZUSA expects most other tertiary institutions will do the same. They [...]

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Kia ora, I’m Dr Tom Ryan

President of the New Zealand Tertiary Education Union Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa (TEU).
Our union represents the interests of more than 12,000 workers employed in the tertiary education sector across New Zealand. The TEU is the main union in our sector. our membership includes teachers and workers employed in all occupations in universities, polytechnics, institutes of technology, wānanga, other tertiary education providers and allied organisations.

Tū Kotahi - Because we are stronger together

Together we are a stronger voice for all tertiary education workers. We believe in working hard for the students in our institutions, and being respected and paid fairly for that work. We believe in a high quality, public education system that that gives everyone a chance, and helps to build a strong economy and strong communities. We believe in working people working together to make things fairer and better for everyone.

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We're a new union but we have a long history.

We're a democratic union with structure and groups to hear and represent the issues of all members."  We also have a set of rules and constitution that define our democratic principles.

We actively work to promote the interests of women and Maori

We negotiate dozens of collective agreements improving the pay and conditions of our members. We also have active branches of members at institutions around the country

Our members help develop policies on a wide range of areas that allow us to influence government and tertiary education institutions.

We have a range of publications to keep members informed, including our widely-read weekly, Tertiary Update, Kua Rangona for union activists and media releases on important issues

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