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Latest bulletin and coverage in the Sun Herald
The latest bulletin on the marking bans is available for download here. This illustrates the outstanding issues at UNSW in comparison with other Group of Eight (Go8) Universities, all of which have ...
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Advice for NTEU members re: results bans
Dear Members,
As the time for handing in final student assessments draws near, I’m sure some of you are acutely aware of the significance of our decision as NTEU members to undertake a ban on ... -
Industrial Action: What you need to know
INDUSTRIAL ACTION: What you need to know, and how to support your colleagues.
Last week, NTEU UNSW branch members voted to take industrial action again, banning the transmission of results ... -
Job Security: it's important at UNSW!
Data provided by UNSW management to Fair Work Australia shows how bad employment security is at UNSW. In their submissions, the University reported that 2028 technical and professional staff are employed on a casual basis. In addition, the University reported 930 fixed term appointments to the Federal Government in its formal reports last year.
If accurate, this means that:
- 41% of professional staff are employed on a casual basis
- Approximately 19% are employed on fixed term contracts
- Only 40% of UNSW professional staff are employed on a continuing basis.
No wonder staff feel
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Members meeting votes to impose further results bans
At an NTEU UNSW branch meeting last Wednesday, members voted overwhelmingly in favour of results bans for Session 2 2010.
The resolution is shown below.
You can assist staff in their effort to ...
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NTEU challenges agreement at Fair Work Australia
The Professional and Technical Staff agreement is not done and dusted, folks. In order to be approved by Fair Work Australia (FWA), enterprise agreements need to be shown to be better than the ...
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Report from Ballot results.
Just under forty per cent of Professional Staff voted NO in the ballot, wanting to continue negotiations in order to achieve a better deal than was on the table.
A majority of those staff who ...
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Members resolve to reject Management's current offer.
NTEU members met yesterday and unanimously adopted the following resolution:
“This General Meeting of NTEU members notes the management “final offer” to general staff, on which ...


