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,…

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. Proposed Stepped payment progressi…

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 b…

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 …

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…