22 months of bargaining has come to a close, with 80% of NTEU members voting for the agreement.
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Students, impacted by the fee increases of the Job-ready Graduates Package, the cost-of-living crisis, unaffordable housing, and without the means to make repayments, will be hardest hit by the indexation.
The strike will start at 8 am with a community assembly and a STOP WORK action by staff from 9 am to 11 am.
Casual staff had not been paid for all hours worked, and nearly half were afraid to ask for their entitled pay.
Amidst ongoing negotiations between the NTEU and University of Sydney management, SUPRA says its main concern is that HDR students will be left in a worse condition in fellowships than on the casual contracts which they will replace.
Staff from the University of Melbourne were joined by striking workers from Monash, Deakin, La Trobe and Federation universities as they marched towards Melbourne Trades Hall.
“This vote is a call for university managements and our government to think seriously about our sector.”
EFRs are academic positions where teaching makes up a greater proportion of an academic’s workload than in traditional “40:40:20” roles, in some cases up to 70 or 80%.
The Victorian university is offering staff what amounts to a 2.2% per annum pay rise, despite inflation persisting at seven per cent.
The NTEU is campaigning on many of the same issues as at the University of Sydney: academic workloads, casualisation and pay. They want management to maintain the 40/40/20 model of academic workloads and create 150 extra permanent positions for current casual staff by 2024.