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For What We're Worth - TEU bargaining at UoA

Release Date: 10/25/2024

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 Nan. Contact our organiser Nicole at nicole.wallace@teu.ac.nz or any member of our branch Are you a member who makes less than the 2024 living wage of $27.80 an hour and would like...

Economics of Bargaining in Tertiary Education

For What We're Worth - TEU bargaining at UoA

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 or any member of our branch 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...

Precarity and Collective Action

For What We're Worth - TEU bargaining at UoA

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...

Industrial Operations and Strategy

For What We're Worth - TEU bargaining at UoA

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...

Performance Pay

For What We're Worth - TEU bargaining at UoA

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. 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   Not yet a member?  If you have any other questions regarding the...

The History of Unionism

For What We're Worth - TEU bargaining at UoA

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...

The Value of a Collective Contract

For What We're Worth - TEU bargaining at UoA

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 Not yet...

The Life Cycle Of Bargaining

For What We're Worth - TEU bargaining at UoA

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...

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