Key Issues

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Aiming Higher for Higher Ed

We believe that a better society needs well-supported universities, and that starts with staff in secure and well-paid jobs delivering quality education and world leading research.

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Bargaining for Better Work

Union negotiated collective agreements provide strong working conditions for all workers in universities across Australia, and in a number of private providers and research institutes. University workers have a wide range of rights and protections as

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Safe & Healthy Workplaces

You have the right to come home from work as physically and mentally well as when you started the day, and your employer has a responsibility to see you do.

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Secure Work

We are committed to enhancing the participation and voice of women members. Women hold positions of influence and power at all levels of the Union, are active on the Union's enterprise bargaining teams, and contribute to the development of the Union’

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Academic Freedom

A free and open society needs those with expertise having the capacity to follow where the research takes them and to provide the public with informed opinion. But academic freedom is under attack. As universities increasingly turn themselves into co

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Wage Justice

Across the country university workers, both those who have secure work and those who are working on short term and casual appointments, are banding together to end the scourge of insecure work.

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Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander

We strive to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices are heard and respected, not just within the union, but beyond, in our wider communities.

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Queer Unionists in Tertiary Education (QUTE)

Every worker deserves to be treated with respect and to work in an environment that is safe for them. QUTE aims to promote education against prejudice, discrimination and harassment in the workplace on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identi

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NTEU Women

We are committed to enhancing the participation and voice of women members. Women hold positions of influence and power at all levels of the Union, are active on the Union's enterprise bargaining teams, and contribute to the development of the Union’

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Universities Accord

We have an opportunity to help save our sector by signing this petition to demand better governance of our public universities and better conditions for staff and students.

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Union welcomes national action plan to stop uni sexual harassment and violence

NTEU welcomes the announcement of a new national action plan to end sexual violence and harassment on university campuses

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Briefing on the National Universities Accord Review Final Report

NTEU briefing on the Final Report of the Universities Accord Review