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We are 27,000 employees in tertiary education making positive change for the future. We are the sole unified voice for university workers of all types across the country.
We work together for safe, secure employment and a better future for higher education where everyone who wants to go to university can afford to.
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.
The National Tertiary Education Union has saved more than 140 jobs at Deakin University after successfully pressuring management to scrap its damaging plan.
Monash University has failed to back-pay thousands of casual academics owed more than $10 million, almost a year after a landmark Federal Court ruling found the university had broken workplace law.
A class size crisis in Australian universities is smashing the student experience and pushing staff to the brink, according to a landmark survey of more than 4,000 university staff.
