National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU)

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Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen discuss the protests against the visit of “King” Charles and talk to NTEU national councillor Markela Panegyres about the recent vote to boycott Israel.

 

Responding to the global Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign, the National Tertiary Education Union National Council has decided, overwhelmingly, to support an academic institutional boycott of Israeli universities. Jonathan Strauss and Markela Panegyres report.

Staff and students at Monash University rallied on October 7 to demand secure jobs, smaller class sizes and genuine consultation. Brenna Dempsey reports. 

Union bodies, leaders and rank-and-file Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union members are pushing back against Labor’s unprecedented draconian anti-CFMEU law. Pip Hinman reports.

Independent Peter Chen edged out Rank-and-File Action candidate David Brophy by six votes for president of the National Tertiary Education Union University of Sydney Branch. Valerie Chidiac and Sandra Kallarakkal report.

Monash University management has raised the price of parking, arguing it will encourage staff and students to travel more “sustainably”. Brenna Dempsey argues it will affect those less well off, who have to drive.

Labor wants to cap the number of international students studying in Australia, but student groups and the NTEU are pushing back. Angus McGregor reports.

Voting by postal ballot is underway in the National Tertiary Education Union in the University of Sydney with union members having until August 30 to decide on their new representatives. Jim McIlroy reports.

In his speech to a pro-Palestine rally, Nick Riemer asked how Vice-Chancellors can dare accuse us of violence when they are courting deeper links with the war industry?

Vic NTEU strikes, Islamophobia in France & why you need Green Left. September 13, 2023.

Green Left journalist’s Isaac Nellist and Chloe DS go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world.

The National Tertiary Education Union at Monash University protested outside a meeting of the university’s Executive Council in support of their enterprise agreement. Brenna Dempsey reports.

A stop-work meeting by more than 250 National Tertiary Education Union members at RMIT decided to continue industrial action. Jordan AK reports.