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		<title>Kiwis join global journal boycott</title>
		<link>https://teu.ac.nz/2012/02/kiwis-join-global-journal-boycott/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Tertiary Update Vol 15 No 1 At least nine New Zealanders have joined a global boycott of Elsevier, the world&#8217;s largest scientific journal publisher. The protest has rapidly gained momentum since it began as an irate blog post at the end of January. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education by Tuesday evening, about 2,400 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>NorthTec can&#8217;t settle</title>
		<link>https://teu.ac.nz/2011/12/northtec-only-itp-that-cant-settle/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 46 NorthTec is currently trying to cut working conditions and extend teaching hours for its staff, when most other polytechnics around the country have come to amicable settlements with their staff in the last two months. NorthTec, one of only two remaining ex-MECA ITPs yet to settle with its TEU [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Long wait over at Unitec</title>
		<link>https://teu.ac.nz/2011/11/long-wait-over-at-unitec/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Tertiary Update vol 14 No 42 TEU members at Unitec finally have a collective agreement again, after nearly a year on individual employment agreements. Members at Unitec voted to ratify their new collective last Friday. &#8220;This is now the second collective agreement that TEU has settled coming out of the old ITP MECA that dissolved [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>ITP MECA saga goes back to court</title>
		<link>https://teu.ac.nz/2011/03/itp-meca-saga-goes-back-to-court/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 7 The on-going saga around the ITP multi-employer collective agreement will head to court one more time. TEU has applied to the Employment Court claiming it should not be required to continue to bargain with the six ex-ITP MECA employers (WITT, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Unitec, NorthTec, Whitireia and Wintec) [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>ITP MECA bosses don&#8217;t want to let go</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[TEU members at the six polytechnics involved in the long-running ITP MECA dispute are balloting once more to be allowed to negotiate separate site-based agreements. In December last year TEU members held a series of meetings at which they voted in favour of replacing their multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) with separate, site-based agreements at each [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>ITP MECA Update</title>
		<link>https://teu.ac.nz/2010/12/itp-meca-update/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Members at Whitireia, BoPP, WINTEC. NorthTec, Unitec and WITT polytechnics face more uncertainty in bargaining. ITP MECA December update]]></description>
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		<title>ITP MECA Working Party Update</title>
		<link>https://teu.ac.nz/2010/11/itp-meca-working-party-update/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[18 November 2010 Hello TEU members Initiation Process for the Collective Agreement Prior to the Central Working Party on the 20 October, TEU and the employer representatives agreed in good faith to delay the initiation process for the bargaining of the collective agreement. This was to ensure there would be constructive discussions at the central [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a new ITP MECA</title>
		<link>https://teu.ac.nz/2010/07/finally-a-new-itp-meca/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://teu.ac.nz/?p=11252</guid>
				<description><![CDATA[The 16-month-long ITP MECA negotiations finally concluded last week, with members voting to ratify a six month collective agreement that sees no changes to the much-disputed core working conditions. The agreement, which will run until 30 November, agrees to set up a working party to discuss unresolved issues, to be convened by the Partnership Resource [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>New MECA has been ratified  – ITP MECA Bargaining Update</title>
		<link>https://teu.ac.nz/2010/07/new-meca-has-been-ratified-itp-meca-bargaining-update/</link>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Dear TEU members Ratification Vote Thanks to all of you who participated in the eballot process for this ratification ballot. The result of the cumulative vote across all six branches is that a new MECA has been ratified. The term will be 01 June 2010 to 30 November 2010. Thanks also to all of you [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Minister offers to lean on polytechnic to change its funding</title>
		<link>https://teu.ac.nz/2010/07/minister-offers-to-lean-on-polytechnic-to-change-its-funding/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 25 TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs says it seems irregular that the minister of tertiary education, Steven Joyce, would openly suggest that Wanganui Council sever the links between its Glass School and UCOL so that it could be run as private business, or PTE. Ms Riggs says it is also [&#8230;]]]></description>
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