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USyd Casuals Network

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“A better university is possible”: NTEU protests casualisation crisis

The protest follows mounting rebukes of managements’ treatment of casual staff, including investigations into wage theft across 21 universities.

November 19, 2021 Claire Ollivain
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Casual staff launch $2 million wage theft claim against USyd management

Staff are demanding renumeration for six years of unpaid marking and administration work.

October 15, 2021 Claire Ollivain
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FASS dismisses wage theft evidence in internal investigation

Claims of wage theft were referred to as “a mistaken belief that casual academic staff are entitled to be paid for any time spent at their discretion and choice.”

October 7, 2021 Vivienne Guo
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USyd admits wage theft of $12.75 million

“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?'”

September 13, 2021 Claire Ollivain
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USyd Casuals Network calls for similar apology and change after UMelb VC acknowledges ‘systemic failure of respect’

Critics have said that the apology is not enough.

September 13, 2021 Joe Fidler
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Uni sends generic email refusing conversion of over 4000 casuals into secure work

In an administrative oversight, at least one staff member was sent the email despite having already been offered a conversion.

September 10, 2021 Claire Ollivain
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Car convoy for workers’ rights takes to the streets in spite of police repression

Protestors demanded increased income support payments and vaccine, test and isolation leave for all workers.

August 1, 2021 Jordi Pardoel
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Wage theft of casual staff just ‘the tip of the iceberg,’ report finds

90% of participants performed unpaid work at the University of Sydney during Semester 2.

May 18, 2021 Claire Ollivain and Deaundre Espejo
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Casual academics are having to choose between working from a hospital bed or missing out on pay

For casual staff, working while ill is not an anomaly but points to systemic exploitation in the university model.

May 13, 2021 Claire Ollivain
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Casual university staff speak on precarious employment before Senate Committee

The ‘uberisation’ of universities was criticised for degrading education and the lives of staff.

April 13, 2021 Claire Ollivain

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