Welcome to UniCasual, a workplace information portal for Australian casual academic staff.
Produced by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) this site contains details about your workplace rights, your obligations and those of your employers, and information on how NTEU can assist you. This website aims to help you find out what you need to know to survive as a casual, and provides practical tips as well as introductions to NTEU and CAPA.
To find your local NTEU Branch, click here.
Latest news
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Sessional Staff Survival Guide
Are you an academic casually employed by UniSA?
Do you work with staff who are casually employed at UniSA?
Do you supervise Casual/Sessional academic staff?If the answer to any of the above ...
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'Death of the university as we know it’
The following comment piece ‘Death of the university as we know it’ by David Robinson, Associate Director, Canadian Association of University Teachers, originally appeared on the ...
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Show we value our casual and sessional colleagues! Message from NTEU UoN Branch President
Dear Academic NTEU Members,
Doing the right thing by our Casual and Sessional Academic Colleagues
As the new University year commences and casual appointments for teaching sessions are well in ...
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It is all too casual at UWS… Did you know the Higher Education Sector has one of the highest proportions of insecure employment in the Australian Workforce?
NTEU: Improving job security @ UWS
Your union has had a strong focus on improving the security of employment for employees in the University Sector. As most people will know, the ...
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NTEU in the Media - Casual work hurting sector, inquiry told
Campus Review featured an article on the NTEU's Insecure Work submission yesterday. The article is available here. In the article Dr John Buchanan from the Workplace Research Centre (WRC) based in ...
Submission
(1 MB) - PDF2012 NTEU submission to the Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia
Published: 14 Feb, 2012
Tags: casuals,
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National Insecure Work Inquiry begins in Brisbane
Yesterday the Howe Indpendent Inquiry into Insecure Work began as the first of twenty three locations around Australia. QLD Division Secretary, Margaret Lee, and two casual academics appeared before ...
Media Release
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Swinburne Sessionals – Major Justice Campaign Close to Launch
Well over half the teaching performed at Australian Universities is being carried out by Sessional staff, and at Swinburne specifically more than two thirds of the Academic workforce is casual! Many ...
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West Australian article on Insecure Work Inquiry
One of the NTEU's Murdoch branch members, Brad Evans, spoke to the West Australian on January 24 about his experiences as a casual university staff member. The article focuses on Unions ...
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Upstairs, Downstairs - Life as a sessional tutor
This is an excellent article by Sue Green, a Sessional Tutor at Swinburne University.
It's from July last year but, as it was in the Age, many here may have missed it.
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Media: Casual workers miss out on benefits - unions
An article on casual workers appeared yesterday in The West Australian featuring Murdoch Branch Casual member Brad Evans. You can read it here.
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Casual Voices
Have something to say? Add your voiceI am not invited to any meetings, and this year not even to the Christmas party or convening meeting for the program. It is useful to go, if only to be seen by the Head of School, but I never get paid if I do go.
