“We ‘re ready to negotiate our own Bay of Plenty Polytechnic collective agreement.” TEU members at Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and four other polytechnics have voted to negotiate separately so that we can have direct face-to-face conversations with our employer. But instead, these employers are determined to stay together, even though they all say they want different things. They would rather keep ganging together as a power-bloc. We want a collective agreement with our employer – Bay of Plenty Polytechnic. We have voted overwhelmingly in favour of this but our employer is trying to ignore the collective wishes of his staff, and will use public money to fight a legal appeal to try to avoid negotiating directly with us. Meanwhile, both time and public money is being wasted and there is no sign in sight of a collective agreement. We are ready - we have a team of professional, democratic, local people just like you. We know what we want - a fair pay rise and no loss of working conditions. Let’s get moving on this for the good of our students, and for the good of education We’re ready to go.
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