The ballot would allow staff to take industrial action.
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The protest follows mounting rebukes of managements’ treatment of casual staff, including investigations into wage theft across 21 universities.
Management is yet to accept the union’s calls for this allowance to be offered annually.
Physicist Peter Ridd was unsuccessful in his free-speech dispute with James Cook University despite support from the National Tertiary Education…
Staff are demanding renumeration for six years of unpaid marking and administration work.
Staff at The College at Western Sydney University (WSU) have “overwhelmingly” rejected an enterprise agreement proposed by management after a…
“Once again the University’s response appears very much to be ‘why pay your staff correctly when legally you can get away with underpaying them?’”
In an administrative oversight, at least one staff member was sent the email despite having already been offered a conversion.
Staff have raised concerns the data will be used to rank academics and justify course cuts.
USyd is now the sixth university in New South Wales to have agreed to the NTEU’s demands.