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| Jennifer Fane - NTEU Flinders Newsletter |
Flinders Branch Newsletter March 2014
please see link for full newsletter http://www.nteu.org.au/library/view/id/4972
I have recently been appointed as the Academic staff representative to the National Tertiary Education Union's Women Action Committee (WAC). I travelled to Melbourne this week to take part in the national WAC meeting which happens twice yearly at the NTEU national office.
The WAC is committed to making the voice of women in the union heard. Not just for 'women's issues' but as a voice for issues which concern all members of the union and the greater body of our colleagues within our Universities. Our meeting focused on pressing issuing currently being addressed in our Enterprise agreements and within the larger context of our workplaces. Key areas of conversation were the Domestic Violence Leave provisions, Anti-bullying culture, and Indigenous matters.
My fellow South Australian representative Shelley Pezy and I will have a report featured in the NTEU SA branch's next newsletter which I will post when published. I found the meeting to be an excellent opportunity to address some of the extremely pressing issues happening within Universities, the NTEU, and within the greater Australian society. I am looking forward to growing in my role as an advocate for the voice of women within the Union and the University sector in South Australia.
