Members' meeting 4 September 08
ANU offers staff only 3.4%
Your NTEU negotiators have now been negotiating with ANU management since early April for a new Union Collective Agreement (UCA). Management has finally made a revised but still inadequate pay offer to staff of now just 3.4% to be paid later this year with no further scheduled wage rises for the remainder of this Agreement, to the end of 2009.
Given the Reserve Bank's annual inflation rate of 4.5 per cent (CPI Year to June 2008 was 4.5%, see http://www.rba.gov.au/ ) a 3.4% increase in your base salary is completely inadequate.
Management is also tying this already inadequate offer to a proposed new structure which will move all academic and senior general staff (ANUO6 & above) to biannual increments. Some staff, mostly those on top of grade who are not eligible to receive an increment, are offered a transitional one-off bonus but this will not be added to the base pay rates. The NTEU has said that any revisions to the staffing structure must be the result of a proper and thorough review.
This offer does not adequately reward the dedicated contributions of staff across the institution and fails to acknowledge the work involved in maintaining ANU as Australia's leading research university.
Ballarat University agrees to 10.5% pay increase
Even Ballarat University, which is not in as strong a financial position as ANU, has reached agreement on a 10.5% (10.9% compounded) pay increase for staff as well as some other conditions that are in advance of ANU management's offer, such as 5 hours paid induction for new sessional staff, long service leave entitlements for casuals and all marking paid outside the contact hour paid separately.
It is now time to show your support and have your say
Grahame McCulloch, NTEU General Secretary will be attending a members' meeting to discuss the ANU's offer in the light of ANU's capacity to pay.
Please come along, bring your colleagues and have your say.