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new website fights university gag order |
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A new website and e-mailing list have been set up to allow workers at Auckland University and members and supporters of AUS, the union representing general and academic staff at Auckland University, to share information and discuss developments in their union and workplace. The website is the product of a prolonged controversy which was prompted by the efforts of the president of AUS Auckland, Lane West-Newman, to suppress a pair of articles written for the union's bulletin by rank and file union members. One of these articles criticised vice chancellor John Hood's use of slush funds to finance favoured parts of the university, and the other, by Thr@ll reader and distributor Kirsty McCully, noted parallels between casualisation on the South Island waterfront and casualisation at Auckland University, and called for solidarity with the wharfies. Although AUS's Editorial Board supported the publication of the articles, Lane West-Newman vehemently opposed their publication because this would "antagonise" John Hood. The story of the struggle which ensued over the articles is a continuing one, but a good deal of it is covered in the introduction which the censored article "The Casual Attitude" was given when it was distributed as a leaflet at Auckland's May Day march. The new website is at: http://www.geocities.com/aucklandunistaff/
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