2017 ANNUAL REPORT
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CONTENTS Highlights from the year 4 T큰 kotahi, t큰 kaha 7
Sandra Grey, National President Te Tumu Whakarae
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2017 from the view of Council 9 Sharn Riggs, National Secretary 11 2017 - Our Mahi 13
What next after the change of government?
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T훮tou, t훮tou e - Our People 27 2017 Financial report 32
TOGETHER WE HAVE ACHIEVED SO MUCH Highlights from the year The Tertiary Education Union Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa (TEU) is a movement of people working to defend and promote quality public tertiary education that is accessible to all. Together, we have achieved so much in the last 12 months. These successes are not just about ensuring everyone has access to tertiary education that is public, local and focused on learning – but about securing pay and conditions that recognise our members’ commitment to quality tertiary education.
WHAT WE ACHIEVED TOGETHER IN 2017
WHAT WE WILL DO TOGETHER IN 2018
✓✓ Stopped the last Parliament passing legislation to further privatise tertiary education
✓✓ Campaign for an accessible, fully-funded public tertiary education system that supports staff and student wellbeing
✓✓ Negotiated collectively for pay and conditions that reflect the time, skill and energy members put into their work ✓✓ In a successful election campaign, told the politicians that want to lead our country why publicly provided and publicly controlled tertiary education is so important for us all
✓✓ Stand together to change the rules so staff and students have a voice in workplace and sector decisions, improve pay and conditions, and ensure education and research is understood as more than completions and international journal articles
✓✓ Started a national debate about the declining conditions of work in tertiary education
✓✓ Build mana inside and outside pay negotiations - and work together for a pay system that means all staff are paid well and paid fairly
✓✓ Developed values to guide our work based on our commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
✓✓ Continue to develop our Kaupapa Tiriti framework to guide our daily work
THANK YOU! WE COULDN’T HAVE DONE THIS WITHOUT ALL OF US WORKING TOGETHER
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PROUD TO BE TEU...
"Members at Unitec have worked tirelessly to oppose the decision in 2015 to outsource essential services to a private company, Concentrix. The services that were privatised are now being brought back in-house. Our priorities for next year include bringing more people into our union, working with management to increase enrolments, and supporting staff currently in insecure work."
"From the humanities to the sciences, universities to polytechnics, and academic to professional staff: this year the TEU demonstrated that solidarity matters." Dr. Nicola Gaston University of Auckland
"Ma te huruhuru kia rere te manu.” "2017 has been great for helping members get some new feathers by attending conferences and hui, so they are able to move forward more effectively." Marcia Browne, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Wei Yuen Loo Unitec
...BECAUSE WE’RE STRONGER TOGETHER
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TŪ KOTAHI • TŪ KAHA The TEU is a movement of people with a shared vision of accessible, quality tertiary education that is focused learning. We are the voice of the tertiary education sector - and that voice comes from our members. By being part of the TEU you are standing together with thousands of other dedicated staff to reverse years of underfunding, to ensure our communities have access to quality learning opportunities, to change the rules so staff and students have a voice in workplace decisions and to improve pay and conditions. Everything we achieve is possible only because of the hard work and commitment of our members. When we are united, when we stand together we are powerful. Stand with us. Stand as one.
STAND WITH US teu.ac.nz/join 0800 278348 teu@teu.ac.nz
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SANDRA GREY National President Te Tumu Whakarae "What a year! From popping the cork on a bottle of bubbly when we learned that the National government wasn’t going to be able to pass changes which would have embedded in law the market and competition approach to tertiary education; to our exasperation when institutional leaders are deaf to staff voice no matter how loudly and compellingly we speak out... From tears shed with UCOL BP Steve Wharehinga as he told of the importance of education to his community and whānau, to the surprise when we made the front page of the Herald with our research on the negative impacts of tertiary education policy on staff and students... From the laughter shared at meal times at Hui-ā-motu, the Branch Presidents' forum, the last conference, the Talanoa, Council on the
Marae at Ara, and the National Women’s Hui; to the anger as the University of Otago vice chancellor announced 160 job cuts... ...it has been a year where we have demonstrated that the only way to win is together. Tū Kotahi, tū kaha! So proud and so humbled to have walked with you all in 2017, and so ready to step it up a notch under a new Labour, New Zealand First, and Green government with whom we can make real strides to ensure that tertiary education is publicly funded and controlled, and delivers transformative teaching, learning, and research for all kiwis."
“2017 was a year of progress for TEU; we made significant steps towards fulfilling our obligations to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, ran meaningful campaigns to support members under threat at several tertiary institutions, and raised public awareness about the necessity and value of publicly funded tertiary education. In looking to 2018, my focus as Women's VP will be to build upon the activism we fostered during the Women's Hui by empowering and mentoring women delegates and their activities in their home branches.” Cat Pausè, Vice-President Women and Massey University
2017 FROM THE VIEW OF COUNCIL
"A priority for 2018 will be to ensure Te Tiriti o Waitangi is integrated into the structures, policies and work plans of the TEU and our tertiary institutions. This will be crucial to delivering on our commitment to defending and promoting quality tertiary education that is accessible to all New Zealanders. A system founded on the principles of Te Tiriti would be publicly funded and owned, collegially governed and equitable. We will also continue to promote whakawhanaungatanga in Te Hautu Kahurangi o Aotearoa (TEU)." Bill Rogers, Vice-President Māori and NorthTec
“In 2017 the TEU solidified its place as the voice of the tertiary education sector. It did this by calling on its members and the public to voice strong opposition to the Tertiary Amendment and Other Matters Bill. The campaign to “Keep it Public” saw the passage of this bill stalled and with a new government, discarded. Other work that has been furthered includes our Tiriti relationship journey, challenging the trend of casualisation in our sector and work on a new industrial strategy that will provide a set of rules and guidelines for the union’s collective bargaining across the sector.” Phil Edwards, Vice-President Industrial and Professional and Otago Polytechnic
"Together we have achieved some great things, like the General Staff Pay Project, the focus on building our capacity and the successful Keep it Public campaign. I look forward to Council’s work with branches to increase their influence and our continued advocacy at the highest level. I am optimistic that with the new government we can make some real progress on improving the pay and conditions in the sector and stop the erosion of public education, improving our society for all." Grant Bush University of Canterbury
“2017has hasbeen beena ayear year positive “2017 of of positive activismfor for TEU. Our campaign activism TEU. Our campaign to stop to stop the Tertiary Amendment the Tertiary Amendment and Other and Other Matters Bill and thethe Matters Bill was fantastic, as was campaigntotoencourage support people getting campaign people to out to andinvoting for change vote forvote change the recent general in the recent general election. The election. The planning, activism and planning,for activism and resources resources these major campaigns fromathese campaigns were of were creditmajor to the depth and quality a credit thefocus depth ofto our union.toOur forand 2018quality must be our union. Our focus for 2018 must continue strengthening our union.” be to continue strengthening our union.” Tina Smith Universal College of Learning Tina Smith Universal College of Learning
"Stopping the tertiary education bill was our greatest achievement in 2017. A well planned, strategic campaign made a big difference. But it was the momumental effort of staff and students that won the day. We built on this work throughout a positive election campaign where we stood up for public tertiary education. Our goal for 2018 must be to build our capacity at every level. Members bring us power and power is what we need to get the change we need." Shona Mardle Lincoln University
"As a long standing union member I am extremely proud of Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa. We have been proactive in embedding Te Tiriti o Waitangi into our documentation and offered practical training sessions throughout the motu on implementing a bi-cultural approach to branch meetings and union practices - Ka mau te wehi. TEU walks its talk and is holding strong to our core values "Tū kotahi, Tū kaha, tātou tātou e." Susan Wātene Unitec
2017 FROM THE VIEW OF COUNCIL
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SHARN RIGGS National Secretary "2017 has been another year of constant upheaval for our sector. The restructuring of the way courses and services are delivered has, at times, felt relentless. Our union has supported thousands of staff going through the unnecessary stress and uncertainty these changes inevitably bring. We know that staff voice in decision-making and communication with management has deteriorated over the past 10 years, contributing further to the stress and anxiety that inevitably results from constant disruption to the workplace. However, our staff and members have working extremely hard to use formal consultation processes and collective action to minimise the impact of this.
Many institutions have cited funding uncertainty and low student enrolments as a primary reason for the restructures. Underfunding has also led to a number of mergers. We have been the voice for those communities, staff, and students but it is only by standing together that we can ensure all regions have long term stable provision. We have also called for an end to the obsession with performance metrics, with members working in institutions and nationally to demand something better. In the coming weeks and months this will also be one of the many conversations we will be having with the new government."
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PROUD TO BE TEU...
"Te Kahurangi MÄ reikura, and branch women responded strongly to calls to achieve equal pay for work of equal value. Actions included writing submissions, leading Pay Equity Coalitions/Equal Pay Hubs around the country and dancing through the streets to the theme of 'She works hard for the money.. you gotta treat her right'." Suzanne McNabb TEU National Women's Officer
"The Tertiary Education Union has shown great leadership on a national level in our campaign against the previous government bill to essentially privatise the tertiary education sector." Libby Passau University of Auckland
"We provided nationwide responses to important developments, such as the the campaign to Keep It Public, and provided a strong voice for workers in our branches and in the tertiary sector. We have also built huge support for the Living Wage at Victoria." Katy Miller Co-president of the TEU branch at Victoria University of Wellington
...BECAUSE WE’RE STRONGER TOGETHER
2017 OUR MAHI
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IN 2017 WE... Negotiated collectively...
Stood together to protect public tertiary education...
Negotiating is about more than exchanging views in meetings with management - it is about showing what we can do when we take a stand together.
The TEU is a movement of people with a shared vision of accessible public tertiary education. Together our members are the voice of the tertiary education sector.
Our members and organisers have been negotiating collectively for pay systems that reflect the time and energy staff give to providing quality tertiary education.
It is by standing together throughout 2017 for tertiary education that is public, local and focused on learning that we stopped the government passing a law that would further privatise our sector.
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IN 2017 WE... Built people power...
Provided personal representation...
The changes we have achieved in 2017 have happened because we have worked together to demand something better.
Members may never expect to have a problem at work but when they need information or advice and representation, our local delegates and organisers were always on hand to help.
Over the last 12 months we have trained more of our members to become union activists at both the local and national level. When we are united, when we stand together we are powerful.
Our expert team of organisers have worked tirelessly throughout 2017 to support our members to ensure they get a fair deal.
Focusing on these priorities enabled us to build momentum for change...
To make sure all of us can access transformative learning opportunities... WHAT WE ACHIEVED IN 2017 ✓✓ Stopped the National-led government passing legislation to further privatise tertiary education ✓✓ Secured commitments from all the governing parties to support public tertiary education ✓✓ Campaigned for our members and the public to vote for public tertiary education in the general election ✓✓ Held public meetings, demonstrations, and conversations with local communities, including development agencies, iwi, and local councils, on the importance of public provision in all communities ✓✓ Organised a #LoveHumanities national day of action with events at campuses all over New Zealand ✓✓ Ensured members’ ideas and views were reflected in the Productivity Commission's report on the future of tertiary education
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WHAT WE WILL DO IN 2018 ✓✓ Hold the new government to their promises, and work together to ensure they deliver the changes we need for an accessible, fully-funded public tertiary education system that supports staff and student well-being ✓✓ Campaign for a better, fairer tertiary education system by training more of our members to become union activists at both the local and national level ✓✓ Continue to develop our connections with Universities NZ, the Tertiary Education Commission, ITPNZ, NZUSA and other national groups to advance the needs of staff, students, and communities ✓✓ Establish a constructive dialogue with all relevant Ministries and meet with Ministers regularly to help build an accessible, fully-funded public tertiary education system that supports staff and student well-being ✓✓ Build our collective power by talking to colleagues about the importance of standing together to ensure everyone can benefit from transformative learning
✓✓ Met regularly with institution and sector leaders, including the Tertiary Education Commission and the Minister for Tertiary Education ✓✓ Celebrated World Teachers’ Day, General Staff Day, Suffrage Day, Pink Shirt Day and Red Bag Day with events at branches across the country
HOW YOU CAN HELP IN 2018
Continue to share the resources we publish which enable members to debate the merits of publicly funded tertiary education in all their existing networks. For example, members will have access to talking points on the
Briefing to the Incoming Minister that they can easily use in department meetings to discuss policy decisions which will impact upon our daily teaching, learning, research, and support activities.
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...to give staff a strong voice in workplace and policy decisions...
WHAT WE ACHIEVED IN 2017
WHAT WE WILL DO IN 2018
✓✓ Ensured staff voice was heard in decisions at 12 universities, polytechnics and wānanga to restructure courses and support services
✓✓ Work with the new government to restore a strong staff, student, and community voice to university, wānanga, and polytechnic councils
✓✓ Published the people’s report on tertiary education, 100 personal stories about the power of publicly funded tertiary education to change lives and transform communities
✓✓ Meet with all university, wānanga, and polytechnic councils to present our vision for the future of tertiary education as set out in our briefing to the new Education Minister
✓✓ Worked with members to progress a new Kaupapa Tiriti framework that acknowledges Te Tiriti o Waitangi and sets out the principles and values that will guide our actions
✓✓ Continue to build strong relationships on campuses with senior leadership teams and student associations; and strong relationships with communities meeting with other unions, local councils, iwi, and business leaders
✓✓ Ensured staff voice was heard at all institutions through regular meetings with VCs/CEs and HR at every site, and with presentations and meetings with Councils at some
✓✓ Build our collective power by talking to colleagues about the importance of standing together so staff have a strong voice in workplace and policy decisions
✓✓ Held workshops and meetings on academic freedom and supported the running of the online community Academic Freedom Aotearoa ✓✓ Ensured staff voice was heard in government and Parliament by making submissions on legislation affecting the tertiary education sector ✓✓ Worked to push back against privatisation of services across the sector and successfully petitioned the Unitec Council on the ill effects of contracting student enrolment services out. These have now been brought back in house
HOW YOU CAN HELP IN 2018
Work with members to share TEU publications with colleagues and friends to ensure broad based debate across the sector about publicly funded and controlled tertiary
education. This could be as simple as leaving this annual report on a tea room tables.
...to improve staff and student wellbeing...
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WHAT WE ACHIEVED IN 2017
WHAT WE WILL DO IN 2018
✓✓ Changed the debate about staff wellbeing with three consecutive days of national media coverage on our research into the impact of tertiary education policy on staff and students
✓✓ C ontinue to work with members to enable them to contain ever increasing workloads and to continue to push for changes in funding and management styles in order to change the structure which has seen rising workloads for all staff in tertiary education
✓✓ Succeeded in having a number of people's positions converted from fixed term to permanent jobs - using all formal and legal processes to ensure decent and secure jobs for individual members ✓✓ Ran mana at work workshops to address workplace bullying at branches around the country ✓✓ Ran our 4th biennial Talanoa attended by 30 Pasifika members from 14 branches ✓✓ Ran our biennial national meeting for the TEU’s Rainbow Te Kahukura network
✓✓ Complete our third State of the Sector Survey to look at the continued decline in working conditions in the tertiary education sector and to develop strategies to change the way our institutions operate ✓✓ Work with the new government to ensure students receive the same accommodation allowance afforded others receiving benefits ✓✓ Build our collective power by talking to colleagues about the importance of standing together to improve staff and student wellbeing
✓✓ Made submissions to institutional managers on change processes, mergers, and institutional policy changes - and retained terms and conditions as a result ✓✓ Continued our productive working relationship with the New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations and local student associations, including co-hosting Budget 2017 and Productivity Commission forums
HOW YOU CAN HELP IN 2018
Take time to put up the workloads posters available through we have time for ourselves as well as work. This might be as your local organisers and branch committee - and remind all simple as having a cuppa with a colleague! your colleagues that we can say no to excessive workloads so
For example, in 2017, we led a national debate about the impact government policy is having on staff and student wellbeing
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...and for salaries and conditions that recognise the time, skill and energy you put into tertiary education WHAT WE ACHIEVED IN 2017
WHAT WE WILL DO IN 2018
✓✓ Negotiated collectively for improvements in pay and conditions at more than 25 institutions including a range of union only deals
✓✓ Negotiate collectively to put the principles of our general staff pay framework into collective agreements
✓✓ Achieved a range of flat rate pay increases of $900 to $1250 that are applied to salary rates, and percentage pay increases of between 1 and 2.3 per cent
✓✓ Work with other unions and the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions to ensure employment relations legislation changes advance the rights of working people to act together for better working lives
✓✓ Completed work on a framework for general staff pay that is fair, equitable and transparent ✓✓ Continued to achieve te reo Māori, tikanga, and noho marae clauses in our collective agreements ✓✓ Negotiated collectively for changes to collective agreements at some institutions that mean victims of domestic violence can take time off work ✓✓ Ran workshops at branches across the country to discuss proposals for a new Industrial Strategy to guide future pay negotiations ✓✓ Built huge support among staff and current and former students for the Living Wage to be paid at Victoria University ✓✓ Launched a Living Wage campaign at the Eastern Institute of Technology and Massey University ✓✓ Secured a minimum hourly pay rate of $20 at the Universal College of Learning (UCOL)
HOW YOU CAN HELP IN 2018
✓✓ Campaign to reverse the growing trend towards casual work at our institutions, which is bad for staff, students, and the public good ✓✓ Continue our campaign for equal pay for all staff at tertiary education institutions ✓✓ Continue to run workhsops on insecure work and to push for fixed term jobs to be converted to permanent jobs ✓✓ Implement a coordinated industrial strategy for all our negotiations for the next four years that continues to protect our core conditions and enhances our pay and conditions across the whole sector ✓✓ Build our collective power by talking to colleagues about the importance of standing together so we can secure wages and conditions that reflect the hard work you put into providing quality tertiary education
Talk to colleagues about what the TEU has achieved for staff working in tertiary education - and tell them about how we powerful we are when we stand together. You could also contact your local branch to find out how you can get
involved with campaign activities around negotiations. This could be as simple as putting up a poster or handing out some postcards
Your conditions of work are students’ conditions of learning Your hard work negotiationing collectively for pay and conditions that reflect the hard work you do has made a huge difference to students' learning experience. You have also been working tireless to respond to constant upheaval and restructuring. By November 2017, 12 universities, polytechnics and wÄ nanga have notified staff of their intention to restructure parts of their institutions, causing unnecessary stress and uncertainty for thousands of staff and students. By the same time we have also negotiatied improved pay and conditions at more than 25 institutions.
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In 2017 the trend in institions employing people on insecure, fixed term appointments continued. The work you do is so important, you should not have to worry about your job, too. Through our collective strength we can ensure fair and secure work for more tertiary education staff. "Last year I started my position as a Tutorial Assistance on a fixed term appointment for one academic year. However it was clear that my role was in fact one of a full time tutor. With the Union's assistance I was able to have my appointment reassessed and this corrected my employment status half way through the year. For 2017, I was again re-offered another fixed term appointment, even though I was being reinstated in the upgraded role and despite the fact that it was the same job. Consequently, I put my case forward, and again with backing from the Union, I was able to convince my employer that a review was required to secure a tenured position. I am glad to say that this was recently granted and I'm now looking forward to a relatively secure future and a fulfilling relationship with my employer." Sam Atkins Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology
HOW YOU CAN HELP IN 2018
Contact the TEU to ask for a workshop to be held at your branch that focuses on the steps we can all take to support those on insecure contracts, whose work we rely on to make teaching and learning possible.
“Public tertiary education has given me a voice. It empowered me to feel a part of and be able to contribute better to the society I live in.� Together we stopped the previous government passing a law to funnel public funds aways from public tertiary institutions. During the campaign more than 2,100 of you told politicians on the Education and Science Select Committee why publicly provided and publicly controlled tertiary education is so important for us all. Together with the hard work of our organisers planning campaign activities on campuses all over the country, we kept tertiary education public, local and focused on learning.
HOW YOU CAN HELP IN 2018
Take a copy of the TEU's Briefing to the Incoming Minister to your local MP - and using the talking points we have produced to tell them why public tertiary education is so important for us all.
WHAT NEXT AFTER THE CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT?
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CHANGE HAPPENS WHEN WE STAND TOGETHER
In 2017, we helped create the conditions for a new government that is committed to publicly funded and publicly controlled tertiary education. We secured commitments to public tertiary education from the Labour Party, the Green Party and New Zealand First as part of our #keepitpublic campaign. In 2018 we will need to work together to hold the new government to all their promises, and work hard to ensure they deliver the change we need for an accessible, fully-funded public tertiary education system that supports staff and student well-being. To do this, our members have helped produce a briefing outlining our priorities for the new government.
WHAT WE ARE ASKING FOR The briefing outlines four priority areas, along with specific policies the new Government could implement in its first 100 days in office, or across its first term, to achieve our goals. These are: ✓✓ deliver funding that supports accessible public tertiary education ✓✓ create an environment for positive discussion ✓✓ focus on student wellbeing ✓✓ enable union members to negotiate and maintain effective collective agreements
YOU CAN HELP US ACHIEVE THIS Talking about issues, sharing stories and engaging people is a great way to bring about change. ✓✓ Have conversations about what the new government can mean for tertiary education – and how the TEU will be influential in shaping that ✓✓ Use it to demonstrate we are an active professional body which cares about the whole sector – and how our industrial gains at the bargaining table are part of a bigger picture ✓✓ Help people draw connections between the decisions that get made in Wellington and how they impact our institutions, jobs and students
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TĀTOU, TĀTOU E OUR PEOPLE
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COUNCIL KĀTERINA DANIELS
HŌNE SADLER
TE KĀHUI KAUMĀTUA
ALEX SIMS
SANDRA GREY
UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC REPRESENTATIVE a.sims@auckland.ac.nz
NATIONAL PRESIDENT (CHAIR)
BILL ROGERS SANDRA GREY NATIONAL PRESIDENT TE TUMU WHAKARAE sandra.grey@teu.ac.nz
TE TUMU ARATAKI brogers@northtec.ac.nz
CAT PAUSÉ WOMEN'S VICE-PRESIDENT c.pause@massey.ac.nz
PHIL EDWARDS INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL VICEPRESIDENT phil.edwards@op.ac.nz
SUSAN WĀTENE TE TUMU ĀWHINA swatene@unitec.ac.nz
CARLA JEFFREY SHARN RIGGS NATIONAL SECRETARY sharn.riggs@teu.ac.nz
Council is made up of elected members and is the governing body of your union between conferences. It meets four times a year.
TE TUMU ĀWHINA c.jeffrey@massey.ac.nz
SHONA MARDLE UNIVERSITY GENERAL REPRESENTATIVE shona.mardle@lincoln.ac.nz
TINA SMITH ITP ACADEMIC REPRESENTATIVE tina@ucol.ac.nz
CHERYL SMEATON NON-ITP/UNIVERSITY REPRESENTATIVE ace@westreap.org.nz
PHIL DODDS STAFF REPRESENTATIVE phil.dodds@teu.ac.nz
GRANT BUSH CO-OPTED MEMBER grant.bush@canterbury.ac.nz An Executive Committee made up of the national president, the three vice-presidents and two other members of council also meets regularly.
NATIONAL COMMITTEES The TEU has three national committees that work on and have oversight of important issues for our members.
TE TOI AHURANGI Manages all matters Māori and mana Māori motuhake for the union
BRANCH PRESIDENTS An annual meeting of all branch presidents
CHAIR Bill Rogers
NATIONAL WOMEN'S COMMITTEE Ensures the union represents the interests of women
TALANOA A biennial meeting for Pasifika members of the union
CHAIR Cat Pausè
INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEE Looks after the industrial activities of the union and deals with policy matters CHAIR Phil Edwards
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OTHER NATIONAL MEETINGS AND NETWORKS
HUI-Ā-MOTU An annual meeting for Māori members of the union
RAINBOW TE KAHUKURA A network for lesbian, gay, bisexual, takatāpui, fa’afafine, transgender and intersex members
WOMEN'S NETWORK A network where women members of the union can discuss issues affecting their workplaces
TE UEPŪ MĀORI NETWORK A network where Māori members of the union can discuss issues affecting their workplaces
30 BRANCH TEU PRESIDENTS AUCKLAND INSTITUTE OF STUDIES PETER WILKIE peterwilkie@hotmail.com ARA INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY CAROL SOAL carol.soal@ara.ac.nz AUT MARK LE FEVRE mark.lefevre@aut.ac.nz UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY WARWICK ANDERSON warwick.anderson@canterbury.ac.nz GARRICK COOPER garrick.cooper@canterbury.ac.nz EASTERN INSTIUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GORDON REID greid@eit.ac.nz LINCOLN UNIVERSITY SHONA MARDLE shona.mardle@lincoln.ac.nz MANUKAU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JILL JONES jill.jones@manukau.ac.nz NELSON MARLBOROUGH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CHRIS LORDAN chris.lordan@nmit.ac.nz
NORTHTEC BILL ROGERS brogers@northtec.ac.nz STEPHANIE MORGAN smorgan@northtec.ac.nz TE RITO MAIOHA EARLY CHILDHOOD NZ RIKKE BETTS rikke.betts@ecnz.ac.nz NGAROMA WILLIAMS ngaroma.williams@ecnz.ac.nz NZCER RACHEL FELGATE rachel.felgate@nzcer.org.nz LIESJE STEVENS eliza.stevens@nzcer.org.nz OTAGO POLYTECHNIC CRAIG WEST craig.west@op.ac.nz UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO INGRID FOMISON-NURSE Ingrid.fomison-nurse@otago.ac.nz TERESA LA ROOY Teresa.larooy@otago.ac.nz UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND SANDRA GREY sandra.grey@teu.ac.nz TAI POUTINI POLYTECHNIC COLIN SKATES colins@tpp.ac.nz DANIEL COSTELLO danielc@tpp.ac.nz
REAP JODI HAWE jodi@eastbayreap.org.nz
UNIVERSAL COLLEGE OF LEARNING STEVE WHAREHINGA s.wharehinga@ucol.ac.nz
OPEN POLYTECHNIC OF NZ HEATHER DILL heather.dill@openpolytechnic.ac.nz MARY-LIZ BROADLEY mary-liz.broadley@openpolytechnic.ac.nz
UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO LARS BRABYN larsb@waikato.ac.nz ANNIE BARKER abarker@waikato.ac.nz
TE WĀNANGA O AOTEAROA MARCIA BROWNE marcia.browne@twoa.ac.nz
WESTERN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT TARANAKI IAN CLOTHIER i.clothier@witt.ac.nz JANE SLINGER j.slinger@witt.ac.nz
TE WHARE WĀNANGA O AWANUIĀRANGI NGAHIRATA GARDNER ngahirata.gardner@wananga.ac.nz UNITEC WEI YUEN LOO wloo@unitec.ac.nz VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON KATY MILLER katy.miller@vuw.ac.nz WAYNE LINKLATER wayne.linklater@vuw.ac.nz TOI-OHOMAI PAM FLEMING pam.fleming@boppoly.ac.nz TOI-OHOMAI (WAIARIKI) PHILIP BRIGHT philip.bright@waiariki.ac.nz
WELTEC TONY DELLABARCA tony.dellabarca@weltec.ac.nz STEPHEN HOGAN stephen.hogan@weltec.ac.nz WHITIREIA GEORGE TONGARIRO george.tongariro@whitireia.ac.nz LIZ DAY liz.day@whitireia.ac.nz WINTEC DEAN PARR dean.parr@wintec.ac.nz JACKIE MCHAFFIE jackie.mchaffie@wintec.ac.nz
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PROUD TO BE TEU...
"Te whai au te tira haere" "This is a proverb founded on two dimensions - connection and journey. Connection is about drawing our membership together, as we face change at the Open Polytechnic. Journey is about exchanging ideas on how to improve our workplaces."
“TEU has been supportive and instrumental in achieving an increase in salary for members in 2017 & 2018 respectively as part of the bargaining process. It is reassuring to know that ongoing support and guidance has been available to members, if they have required it”. Glenn Stridiron Southern Institure of Technology
"It was amazing to see the national energy created by the campaigns to stop the tertiary education amendment Bill. In 2018 we will be working to ensure the same level of energy is applied at the branch level in our collective negotiations." Phil Dodds TEU Branch Organiser
Mary-Liz Broadley Open Polytechnic
...BECAUSE WE’RE STRONGER TOGETHER
2017 FINANCIAL REPORT
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HOW WE POOL OUR RESOURCES 2017 Estimated Actuals TOTAL INCOME $4,503,155 Expenditure Staffing $2,929,685 National/regional office expenditure $632,479 Governance $385,483 National committees $51,843 TEU activities $406,594 External responsbilities $115,269 Financial/legal services $113,527 TOTAL EXPENDITURE $4,634,880
2018 Budget
STAFFING All costs related to staffing the union NATIONAL AND REGIONAL OFFICE EXPENDITURE All overheads in relation to the running of TEU offices GOVERNANCE Council, kaumātua, national president, vice-presidents, conference
Deficit ($131,725)
NATIONAL COMMITTEES Industrial and Professional Committee, Te Toi Ahurangi, Women’s Committee
TOTAL INCOME $4,447,500
TEU ACTIVITIES Branch capitation, branch presidents’ meeting, industrial activity, TEU Rainbow Te Kahukura, Hui-āMotu, personal grievances, recruitment & campaigns, union education, women’s activities
Expenditure Staffing $2,971,609 National/regional office expenditure $666,845 Governance $391,000 National committees $60,000 TEU activities $420,000
EXTERNAL RESPONSIBILITIES Affiliations and organisation subscriptions, grants and donations, external meetings, election year fund
External responsbilities $141,300 Financial/legal services $123,000 TOTAL EXPENDITURE $4,773,754 Deficit ($326,254)
FINANCIAL/LEGAL SERVICES Audit, general consulting, legal expenses
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Page 32: "crosses de fougère" by marthe lellevre, used under CC BY-SA 2.0 https://www. flickr.com/photos/127683502@N02/33662141883 TEU photos by Danny Stevens, Enzo Giordani and Naomi Carvell
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