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.

Are you a member who makes less than the 2024 living wage of $27.80 an hour and want to talk to us about what making the Living Wage would mean for you? Get in touch with us via this form: https://forms.gle/qY2JbhU8wvmVa7S38

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If you have any other questions regarding the podcast submit them using the form (https://forms.gle/qY2JbhU8wvmVa7S38 )

If you want to get in touch with the bargaining team or Auckland TEU branch:

https://teu.ac.nz/our-people/branches/universities/university-of-auckland/

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 Vandewiele

Oreen Almeida

Leon Salter

Andy Fey

Intro Music by Artem Hramushkin from Pixabay

Outro Music by raspberrymusic from Pixabay