For the eighth episode of 'For What We're Worth' we have a special episode recorded at Friday the 18th of October's strike.

Huge thanks to everyone who took part in the strike and rally! In this episode we interviewed attendees to hear their reasons for striking. As our update we have clips of the speeches from our organiser Nicole Wallace, Labour MP Deborah Russell, and Green Party MP Lawrence Xu Nan.

Contact our organiser Nicole at nicole.wallace@teu.ac.nz or any member of our branch here.

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Credits:

All of our members and supporters at the rally - Interviewees

Speeches – Nicole Wallace – Organiser

Lawrence Xu Nan - Green Party MP

Deborah Russell - Deborah Russell

UoA TEU podcast Team:

Callie V – Interviews and Intro

Tim Signal - Interviews and Editing

James Love – Interviews

Leon Salter

Rosaria Price

Oreen Almeida

Andy Fey

Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay

Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay

This is the seventh episode of 'For What We're Worth'.

In this instalment Nicole Wallace provides an update on the three bargaining sessions for Medical Academics, Security and Gardeners, and Academics on the 23rd and 24th of September then Leon Salter talks to Brent Burmester, the new co-President, (academic) of the TEU Branch at UoA on the economics of bargaining within a tertiary education environment.

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Credits:

Bargaining Update – Nicole Wallace – Organiser

Interview – Brent Burmester, co-President, (academic) of the TEU Branch at UoA

UoA TEU podcast Team:

Leon Salter - Interview

James Love – Intro and editing

Callie V – editing

Rosaria Price

Oreen Almeida

Andy Fey

Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay

Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay

This is the sixth episode of 'For What We're Worth'. In this episode we do not have an update on bargaining, and instead have two interviews.

In the first interview, James Love talks to Juno Barnett-Collins on precarity, precarious workers and how the current round of bargaining claims addresses people who find themselves in these situations.

Then Callie V. then chats with Sandra Grey, the TEU National Secretary on collective action.

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Credits:

Interviews:

Juno Barnett-Collins, a fixed term employee at UoA

Sandra Grey, TEU National Secretary

UoA TEU podcast Team:

James Love - Interview

Callie V.– Interview and Editing

Rosaria Price - Intro

Leon Salter

Oreen Almeida

Andy Fey

Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay

Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay

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, TEU, Assistant National Secretary – Industrial, on industrial operations and strategy at the TEU as it relates to tertiary institutions.

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Credits:

Bargaining Update – Nicole Wallace – Organiser

Interview – Daniel Benson-Guiu, TEU, Assistant National Secretary – Industrial

UoA TEU podcast Team:

Leon Salter - Interview and Editing

Callie V - Intro and Editing Support

Rosaria Price

James Love - Editing Support

Oreen Almeida

Andy Fey

Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay

Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay

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 progression for professional staff - Link

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Credits:
Bargaining Update – Nicole Wallace - Organiser
Interview – Noel Zeng, University of Auckland Branch Co-President

UOA TEU podcast Team:
James Love - Interview and Editing
Rosaria Price - Intro
Callie V
Oreen Almeida
Leon Salter
Andy Fey

Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay
Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay

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 branch president for the TEU. Paul is a union historian and talks about the birth of unionism and its journey over the last one hundred and fifty years to the modern bargaining processes of today both in Aotearoa and overseas.

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Credits:
Bargaining Update – Andy Hipkiss and Nicole Wallace - Organisers
Interview – Dr Paul Taillon – Senior Lecturer in History, UoA

UOA TEU podcast Team:
Oreen Almeida - Interview and Editing
Leon Salter - Intro
Callie V – Editing support
James Love - Editing support
Rosaria Price
Andy Fey

Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay
Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay

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 factual and procedural perspective.

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Credits:
Bargaining Update - Nicole Wallace - Organizer
Interview - Jane Kostanich - TEU organizer since 2007

UOA TEU podcast Team:
Callie V. - Interview and Editing
James Love - Intro
Rosaria Price
Oreen Almeida
Leon Salter
Andy Fey

Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay
Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay

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 since 2011 about the life cycle of bargaining: how bargaining works, how the team is composed, and what to expect from the bargaining process this year.

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Credits:

Bargaining Update - Andy Hipkiss - Organizer

Interview - Sean Sturm - Bargaining Team representative (Academic Staff)

UOA TEU podcast Team:

Rosaria Price - Intro

James Love - Interview and Editing

Callie V.

Oreen Almeida

Leon Salter

Andy Fey

Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay

Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay