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Update on dispute as outlined at last Thursday's member meeting (18/11/10).

Posted 22 November 2010 by Laura Meyer (University of Ballarat)

 

The meeting considered the dispute notified by the NTEU on October 25 around redundancies and Clause 69.4 of the Union Collective Agreement on organisational change.

The dispute has now formally been settled after the University agreed to advise all employees of the likely numbers of redundancies arising from December - January round. A meeting with the combined unions on Thursday November 18th reached an agreement that meets the staff's right to know the number of redundancies.

I wish to reiterate that the four unions opposed this round of redundancies from the outset. We continued to argue in Thursday's meeting that this early round of redundancies pre-empted the Review of Administration, Business and Technical Processes and heightened the level of anxiety many staff are currently experiencing.

We will be distributing a newsletter to all UB staff in the coming fortnight to publicise the NTEU's view on current change process and the related cuts. That newsletter will also set out how we will continue to represent and protect staff interests in the change process.

 

In Solidarity

Jeremy Smith

NTEU Branch President

 

 

The letter stating withdrawal from the dispute, can be read here.

 

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Letter from NTEU to UB notifying of withdrawal of Oct 25th dispute.

Published: 20 Nov, 2010
Tags: UB, UB Blueprint, dispute, workforce changes, workforce initiatives, restructure, join

The NTEU has written to the Director of HR, Deborah Walker, formally withdrawing from the dispute under Clause 70 of the UCA 2010-12. Letter dated 22nd November 2010.

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  1. Val said on 18:38 Tuesday 25 Jan, 2011

    [ 0 ] If anyone has any comments on the redundancies of 2008/9 regarding the psychological effects on staff or students. Any thoughts, feelings etc would be very helpful for my assessment on this subject. Thank you in advance

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