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According to the NTEU’s branch at RMIT Training, the offer provided to staff members promised “low wages and excessive workloads”.
We’re not here to make friends or win votes, we’re here to return to our radical leftist roots.
The strike will start at 8 am with a community assembly and a STOP WORK action by staff from 9 am to 11 am.
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.
The University is seeking to remove limits on teaching loads for both staff in EFRs and mixed Teaching and Research positions.
The decision to take this action follows a unanimous vote by members of the UniMelb NTEU Branch.
The University of Sydney staff and students went on a 24-hour long strike today, demanding fair pay, First Nations staff parity and less Education Focused roles. Friday’s action was the first half of the 48-hour strike, with the next strike taking place next Wednesday.
The National Tertiary Education Union members’ vote came after the University made an updated offer to staff this week.
The strike was held 20 months into ongoing Enterprise Bargaining negotiations between the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and the University. This is the longest period of enterprise bargaining in the University’s history.
