Educators keep ahead of mean wage rises
The Labour Cost Index statistics released this week show that pay rates for education professionals rose 1.0 percent in the September quarter, compared to a rise of only 0.6 percent for all workers...
View ArticleMinistry responds to funding cuts with commercialisation
Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 2 The Ministry of Education released its briefing to the incoming minister to the public last week. Or, at least parts of it that are not being withheld under the Official...
View ArticleGovt signals another austerity budget
The minister of finance, Bill English, announced this week that he will spend $800 million less in this year’s budgetthan the Prime Minister John Key was forecasting only six weeks ago. That could be...
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Budget 2012
TEU analysis and coverage of Budget 2012 We will update this page over the next few days with TEU’s analysis and comment on Budget 2012, as well as links to coverage of tertiary education-related and...
View ArticleAusterity causing global education crisis
Education throughout the world is facing an austerity crisis according to global trade union Education International (EI). Across the globe, the continuing economic crisis is devastating education...
View ArticleGovt actions suppress education salaries
Statistics New Zealand reports a 0.5 percent increase in the Labour Cost Index (LCI) in the three months to June. For people working in public sector education and training the news is worse, with...
View ArticleInequality growing issue for workers
CTU economist Bill Rosenberg says recent reports on income inequality show thatincome inequality rose again in the year to June 2011, and is now at its highest level ever in New Zealand. The report on...
View ArticleUnion membership pays off for kiwis
Pay increases in collectives over the last 20 years have been markedly higher than employees in general have received. CTU economist Bill Rosenberg has been reading the latest data from the Industrial...
View ArticlePay-rise stats show government strangling education pay
Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 3 The latest data from Statistics NZ show public sector workers involved in education and training averaged pay rises of only one tenth of a percent during the last three...
View Article“Austerity lite” is the wrong thing to do
When the budget is released this afternoon TEU will be responding to it with a media release and analysis at this webpage. In the meantime the CTU’s economist Bill Rosenberg argues that the...
View ArticleLiving Wage good for employers and the economy
The amuamu (argument) that a Living Wage will push up inflation and harm productivity lacks evidence. In fact the research shows, says Te Kauae Kaimahi (CTU) economist Dr Bill Rosenberg, that higher...
View ArticleACC’s financial health may mean lower levies
ACC is proposing a 15 percent cut in the earners’ levy paid by all workers, as well as a 17 percent cut to the work levy paid by employers and self-employed people. However, the...
View ArticleInjury rates in education workplace can improve
The latest statistics on workplace injuries show that four in every 1,000 people working in the education and training industry had a claim to ACC for a workplace injury or accident last year....
View ArticleEmployment data puts pressure on for pay rises
Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 38 Average ordinary-time hourly earnings rose in both the private (up 2.6 percent) and public (up 2.7 percent) sectors according to Statistics NZ’s latest Quarterly Employment...
View ArticleRushed secret agreements could harm education
Trade ministers from the 12 countries are threatening to conclude a deal, in secret, when they meet in Singapore from 7 to 10 December. Claims that trade ministers are close to a final deal...
View ArticleClimate justice needed for workers
CTU economist and policy director Bill Rosenberg says New Zealand needs to develop a ‘just transition’ employment and job strategy to respond to climate change. “The time and the science are well past...
View ArticleBudget figures reveal tertiary squeeze could be for the long haul
CTU economist Bill Rosenberg has unearthed figures in the Government’s budget that show falling government expenditure as a proportion of GDP over the next four years, a sign that tough times are not...
View Article90-day law an all-round failure
The government’s law which allows 90-day trial periods for new employees is under attack from all quarters - uniting unlikely allies in the process. Last week the Council of Trade Unions president...
View ArticleLift wages to solve inequality says Rosenberg
Wages and salaries are a vital part of the picture of income inequality in New Zealand because so many people depend on them says CTU economist Bill Rosenberg. For households with at least one member...
View ArticleCollective agreements get more pay rises
Does it pay for you to be on a collective agreement rather than an individual agreement, asks CTU economist Bill Rosenberg? The evidence available suggests that yes, workers on collective agreements...
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