Monash has applied to the Fair Work Commission to retrospectively change the enterprise agreement in place between the University and the NTEU from 2019.
Author: Luke Cass
Students, paying tens of thousands of dollars for a nebulous product, and teachers, stripped away from the research that is normally the lifeblood of an academic career and in increasingly precarious work, inevitably suffer from these partnerships.
Members instead resolved to “provisionally endorse the University’s Enterprise Agreement Package to Conclude Bargaining as an acceptable framework to finalise negotiations.”
The University is seeking to remove limits on teaching loads for both staff in EFRs and mixed Teaching and Research positions.
The University urged the Albanese government to “fix the worst elements of the Job-ready Graduates Package,” in its submission but stopped short of recommending its repeal.
The decision to take this action follows a unanimous vote by members of the UniMelb NTEU Branch.
As Jesus at the Gay Bar exemplifies, queer coming out often resists categorisation as happy or sad; self-acceptance is not a linear process.
Despite this admission, the University maintains that “the School [of Psychology] was not aware” that this practice resulted in wage theft.
As staff go on strike on Friday, Honi decided to break down the University’s financial documents and counter University management’s spin. Our findings? The University is swimming in it.
The vote came after the University this week made a marginally improved offer to staff after 20 months of negotiations.