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What does cross-union solidarity look like in the face of new anti-union employment law? Should workers from different jobs  and different work-sites help each other through tough employment negotiations. And if so, how? This week we talk to CTU president Helen Kelly about union solidarity.


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For more information

Pay fueling strike action threat, Breakfast TV, 11 February 2015
 Why Cut Our Pay – CTU
Pay rises on agenda for 2015 – Tertiary Update, 5 February 2015
CTU Economic Bulletin 164: The Year Ahead – Unusual Times, January 2015


Thanks to  Nicolo for the song Ceteski  https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/37533/ceteski

This week’s TEU podcast asks how a little known international agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement or TPPA,  could affect tertiary education. In particular, will stricter copyright laws restrict access to scholarship and research?

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Thanks to  Nicolo for the song Ceteski  https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/37533/ceteski


For more information check out:


TEU’s open letter to Steven Joyce,
A Fair Deal, which examines the copyright issue in more detail,
It’s our Future, the lobby group organising rallies in opposition to the TPPA,
The Washington Post, and more humorously John Oliver – both note that most countries are currently holding off passing plain packaging legislation for cigarettes because of the threat of legal threat as a result of international agreements like the TPPA.

Listen to Tertiary Update’s inaugural podcast. This week the Prime Minister John Key confirmed that his government is budgeting for $1 billion of new spending for the coming year.  We talked to some TEU members about whether that would be enough.


Thanks to Br3nda @ Flickr for the photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/taniwha/9538325/ and Nicolo for the song Ceteski https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/37533/ceteski