Tertiary Education Union (NZTEU)

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The New Zealand Tertiary Education Union (TEU) Te Hautu Kahurangi o Aotearoa is the union representing the interests of more than 12,000 workers employed in the tertiary education sector across New Zealand. The TEU is the main union in the sector and our membership includes teachers and workers employed in all occupations in universities, polytechnics, institutes of technology, wananga, other tertiary education providers and allied organisations. It was formed this year from a merger of AUS and ASTE.TEU members work together collectively to safeguard and enhance our industrial, professional and educational goals, including:negotiating collective employment agreements;advising and representing staff with employment-relationship problems;monitoring and acting on issues affecting members in their workplaces;improving the quality of tertiary education in New Zealand; anddeveloping specialist research and policy to promote the interests of tertiary education workers;safeguarding the rights of Maori members and meeting the union's responsibilities to wider Maori communities through the promotion of and adherence to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.We are a democratic union with strong membership participation and governed by an elected council.

• # Episodes

  25 episodes

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  TV-G