On Thursday 13th March, the Chief Executive Officer of UNSA attempted to remove the democratically elected president Matthew Jeffrey from office.
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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.
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.