NTEU - more betrayal & gross negligence - October 2020

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” 

Martin Luther King Jr.

On 8 October 2020, I completed a National Tertiary Education Union Workplace Issue Form and emailed it to the NTEU branch organiser. 

I tried every approach I could find, to get help from my union, since they neglected to have an introduction meeting with me. Silence again.

NTEU Workplace Issue Form - a screen shot of my submission

On 16 October 2020, I emailed the NTEU branch organiser again, begging for a meeting, urgently. I received more silence and neglect. The union were intentionally ignoring me and not applying their policies and agreement with me, as a member. To quote my email:

“I need to finally organise a meeting to discuss how the processes work Eg. how the union assists etc. and to look at my case, to be informed of my rights and what actions I can take. I’m mentally, emotionally and financially exhausted…”

NOTHING. SILENCE. DELIBERATELY IGNORING ME. 

The National Tertiary Education Union take membership fees and agree to collude in wage theft via workers compensation fraud, omitting and withholding important information about legal entitlements under workers compensation. The NTEU also allowed the cause of my claim, the national manager of employment relations and SAFETY, to continue harassing and stalking me through ALL MY ACCRUED LEAVE ENTITLEMENTS OF TWENTY YEARS. 

Complete theft of everything I worked for ethically and honourably within the university community. That’s coming up in the next post. I’m completely traumatised at the level of abuse and offences WHS duty holders committed, all because I requested some agreed boundaries for a safe work environment. That’s all I asked for! But every agency and individual agreed to go along with it, and let it happen. WHY?

The NTEU agreed to ostracise and mob me too, allowing the CRIME OF FRAUD AS WAGE THEFT TO OCCUR, FOR A QUARTERLY FEE. 

On 27 October 2020 I received NTEU communication about the upcoming enterprising bargaining. I wasn’t an object to be sacrificed as part of the negotiations, for the NTEU. I was not a bagraining chip for the NTEU. This all applied to me too and I had a right to a voice and a right to advice and information as a member, of which were withheld, to disadvantage me. 

The NTEU email and "message" - the NTEU agreed to isolate me and omit informing me of my legally owed benefits and rights under WHS and workers compensation laws and regulations - Who were the NTEU "in solidarity" with? It wasn't with its members.

 

The NTEU were there to fight against wage theft and harassment, not be coerced by senior executives of the PCBU, to allow it to happen to a member. See also Prohibited Workplace Surveillance - http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/07/prohibited-workplace-surveillance.html.

This post is based on documents 109-110 and 113.

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Some reading: 

Menzies Research Centre. (2025). ‘Unions Inc: The corporatisation of the Australian union movement.’ [Online] : https://www.menziesrc.org/latest-reports-and-submissions/unions-inc

“In the nearly 20 years for which records are available, since 2006-07, Australian unions have pocketed a grand total of $528,769,384, from worker entitlement, training and superannuation funds identified in this report.”