national tertiary education union

an amalgamation of

National Tertiary Education Staff Union and

National Union of Tertiary Employees of South Africa

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The NATIONAL TERTIARY EDUCATION UNION  has been formed.

The two participating unions in a joint inaugural congress on the 19th November 2009 voted to amalgamate.

Some 75 delegates from the NTESU and NUTESA voted unanimously for the amalgamation of the two unions after brief debate about final aspects of clarity on the constitution.

The meeting elected new office bearers for the NTEU and set in motion the process of application to register the new union through the Registrar (Labour Relations) at the Department of Labour.

NORMAN KEMP

National President

[NMMU Branch]

SYLVIA NKANYUZA

Deputy President

[WSU Branch]

JOHN LANDMAN

National Office Bearer (Policy and Strategic Affairs)

[Rhodes Branch]

FRANCIOS VAN ZYL

National Office Bearer (Legal Affairs)

[DUT Branch]

NIRMALA GOPAL

National Office Bearer (Recruitment and Marketing)

[ULZN Branch]

GRAHAM MYERS

National Treasurer

[DUT Branch]

CONNIE VAN DER WALT

National Secretary

DUT [Branch]

The National Tertiary Education Staff Union

is a non-profit trade union registered by the Registrar (Labour Relations) on 15th January 1998 serving the needs of the academic and general staff workers in universities, technicons and colleges in the tertiary sector.  The NTESU's registration number at the Department of Labour is LR2/6/2/620.

As we develop the content of this site we ask you to bear with the issues involved in this process.  Many of the documents you will come to see on this site rely on the input of the membership and we would like your comments on what the content of some policy and other general documents should be.

If you are just browsing around amongst the labour related sites then we hope that you will find something interesting in these pages and the other ancillary documents placed here for information and interest.

Whichever you are, a prospective, or current, member, you will, over time, find that the policies of the Union change and are updated so review the section on Policy at least once a year for drafts of policy.  Position papers published by the Union appear in the Position section : these will tend to be more dynamic as Government and employers stretch the envelope of change in the industry and changing relationships between parties.

The News page should give an idea of what is happening around the campuses, although the information will rely heavily on you as individual members to feed news and issues to the National Administrative Office or the webmaster.

You will find response and submission forms in various sections of this site, we hope that you will avail youself of these facilities to keep the National Executive Committee and the general membership of NTESU informed about your interests, opinions and issues.

The following appears in the Preamble Statement to the Union's Constitution.

To these ends is established an organisation representing employees in tertiary education and related institutions in South Africa:

To protect and advance the rights, opinions, needs and interests of the membership of the National Tertiary Education Staff Union and by extension the interests of Tertiary Education in South Africa and its communities.

To eliminate differences in benefit, entitlement and process and provide general protection for employees in the sector.

To engender the principles of co-determination between employer and employee and foster an environment that ensures current, or higher, standards of excellence in the work, teaching and research of tertiary education institutions.

To meet and respond to any perceived need to resolve contemporary problems facing society and foster teaching and research in the fulfilment of justice, peace, equality and social harmony and development.