Current Newsletter

In March 2010 issue:

•  What's new in the new Agreement
•  New pay rates
•  Snippets
•  Auntie Nettie discusses Haiti
•  Mythbusters on sessional work and bullying
•  Climate Change
•  NTEU Elections
•  Does Your Job Have Add-Ons?
•  Monash Gets It Right
•  RMIT Gets It Wrong
•  Justice for UB Member
•  Ambushed!
•  Workloads... Still an Issue
•  UB Workers' Health
•  Budget Parsimony Risk to UB
•  He Said, She Said
•  Top Ten Reasons to Join

There are two errata in this edition, please note the following:

• The advertised date for the Environment Committee meeting should read THURSDAY 18 MARCH, 2010.
• There is an error in the article about the achievements in the new Union Collective Agreement. The first item at the top of page 2 refers to changes on the "cap" on annual leave, and unfortunately the figures are the wrong way round. The correct information is that currently, staff who have accrued 40 days of annual leave can simply be forced to take two weeks. The new arrangement, to come in from February 2011, means that when staff have 30 days accrued, the university can insist on their taking leave; however, the staff member will have three months' notice.

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