The ballot saw 89% of Academic staff and 75% of Professional staff vote against the agreement, after the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and the University of Newcastle Casuals Collective heavily lobbied against the proposed agreement.
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Both universities have been forced by the Fair Work Ombudsman to back pay staff more than $9 million in stolen wages.
The $185 million surplus comes after two years of staff redundancies, which were justified as cost-saving measures in the context of COVID.
The University is now trialling a consent module after Honi wrote an article suggesting USyd was falling behind its international counterparts. Coincidence? Probably.
