Diane Zetlin talks about union membership and the strategies employed to gain more members in the NTEU. She discusses the question of whether or not to include general university staff in the NTEU.
Diane Zetlin speaks about the amalgamation of two organisations to form the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) in the late 1980s, and the issues associated with the union becoming affiliated with the ACTU.
Diane Zetlin discusses finishing her Bachelor of Arts with Honours and getting her first academic job at the University of Queensland in 1976. She speaks about joining the Federated Australian University Staff Association (FAUSA), and becoming a union official. She became President, and later, in 1986 General Secretary.
