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Higher education workers support teachers in their fight against casualisation
It has been reported this week that nearly 20,000 new primary and secondary teachers will need to be employed over the next five years to replace staff reaching retirement.
This comes as proposed NSW government reforms will hand control of staffing to local principals, allowing them to replace long-serving, permanent teachers with casual and short-term arrangements.
NSW Teachers Federation President, Maurie Mulheron, is concerned recent graduates will be exploited to achieve a cheaper workforce. He said:
“What we will have is a totally deregulated staffing structure, with an increasing number of temporary positions, no incremental pay scale and no guaranteed executive structure."
''The department and the minister see this as a golden time. They can exploit the fact there are a lot of young people coming in and a cheaper workforce. But they can also change the culture by putting them on short-term or casual arrangements. We're extremely worried about the future of the profession.''
The attacks facing NSW teachers are similar to those faced by higher education staff. Our sector has already seen a dramatic increase in precarious employment, with as many as 77,000 staff in Australian universities employed as casuals. Large-scale casualisation has begun to undermine the sustainability of the academic profession in Australia.
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Teaching Focused Role Meetings
Dear Members and Colleagues,
Further to our email dated 1st May we would like to remind you of our schedules meetings this week to discuss the implementation of Teaching Focused Roles.
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NTEU wins big on Teaching Focused Roles.
The NTEU has achieved a breakthrough after twelve months of pushing to have university management implement Teaching Focus Roles (TFRs) which were won by the NTEU in the last round of bargaining.
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Latest issue of Connect, vol. 5, no. 1
The semester 1, 2012 issue of Connect, NTEU and CAPA's magazine for academic casual staff, is now available.
Click below to read online (PDF and ebook). Members will receive a copy in the mail ...
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(3 MB) - PDFConnect, March 2012
eBook: http://issuu.com/nteu/docs/connect_05_01
Published: 01 Mar, 2012
Year: 2012
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
ISSN: 1836-8522
Tags: casual academics, connect
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NTEU Casual Survey
NTEU online survey for all casual and research staff
- We are conducting this survey to assist in better understanding what is going on at your university, and whether the conditions you and your ...
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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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Letter to Professor McKenna regarding Fixed Term Contracts
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(13 KB) - DOCXHow (IN)SECURE is your employment?
Published: 21 Dec, 2011
Tags: uws change, UWS,
Recently we have been contacted by a large number of members across different Schools whose fixed term contracts are due to expire on 31 December. These members have been informed that due to the Leadership and Management Changes across the University
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Share your experiences as a casual or contract worker
Unions have launched a new inquiry into insecure work in Australia.
Workers will have the opportunity to share their stories about the impact of casual and contract employment alongside community groups, unions and employers in a new national independent inquiry to investigate the extent of insecure work in Australia.
The inquiry is part of the Secure Jobs. Better Future campaign, and will be open for submissions between 2 November and 16 December, before public hearings in each state in February and March.
Share your story
The NTEU is asking you to share your experience and views of insecure work, particularly casual work in the higher education sector.
Submissions will be able to be lodged on the campaign website, securejobs.org.au, or by phoning a special insecure work hotline on 1300 362 223 (toll free).
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Casualising the workforce: 7.30 Report
NTEU Member and casual UWS Staff member Chris Elenor speaks about the casual workforce on the 7.30 Report Tuesday evening. Watch the report by clicking on the URL below:
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NTEU at the Secure Jobs, Better Future launch
UWS casual academic, Chris Elenor, spoke about his experiences as a casual worker at the launch of the ACTU’s Secure Jobs, Better Future campaign yesterday.
While national figures indicate that 40% of the Australian workforce is employed in some form of insecure work, the situation is even more stark in higher education. Recent research has revealed that 60% of the academic workforce in universities is employed on a casual basis.
Secure Jobs, Better Future is a national campaign to improve the rights and working lives of Australians employed in insecure work. More information about the campaign can be found here.
Chris Elenor is the newly elected chair of the NTEU National Academic Casuals Committee. Some of his experiences as a casual worker were published yesterday in SMH online.
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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.
