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

1. Pay fueling strike action threat, Breakfast TV, 11 February 2015
2.  Why Cut Our Pay – CTU
3. Pay rises on agenda for 2015 – Tertiary Update, 5 February 2015
4. 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