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   Video highlights: ACT Dumb Cuts Rally, May 14 at ANU

   Posted 22 May 2013 by Stephen Darwin (ACT Division)

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   ACT Dumb Cuts Rally May 14 at ANU

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   NTEU response to ANU consultation on budget cuts

   Posted 21 May 2013 by Stephen Darwin (ACT Division)

   The NTEU has responded to the ANU Vice-Chancellor's request for input regarding how to manage the budget cuts imposed in the federal budget.

   The NTEU believes it would be most destructive for ...

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   Serious questions about strategy at the University of Canberra

   Posted 25 January 2013 by Stephen Darwin (ACT Division)

   The recent rejection by federal Higher Education Minister, Chris Evans of an attempt by University of Canberra (UC) management to use Commonwealth Supported Places at Holmesglen TAFE in Melbourne has ...

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   ANU Enterprise Bargaining Report #1.

   Posted 14 November 2012 by Stephen Darwin (ACT Division)

   The NTEU negotiating team has met with ANU management representatives to discuss the log of claims we served on the university in late October. The NTEU team provided extensive details ...

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   ANU Mass Meeting Monday 25 June, 12.30 pm

   Posted 22 June 2012 by Stephen Darwin (ACT Division)

   The NTEU has called a mass meeting of all ANU members on Monday 25 June at 12.30 pm in the Coombs Lecture Theatre. This meeting is a critical event in the rapidly deteriorating ...

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   NTEU forces ANU to respect rights of Music staff under Enterprise Agreement

   Posted 15 May 2012 by Stephen Darwin (ACT Division)

   Staff in the ANU School of Music received an email yesterday from the Head of Human Resources, Ron Watts, regarding the failure of the university to respect its obligations under the Enterprise ...

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   Ian Young draws back from 're-positioning' strategy of $40 million cuts

   Posted 30 April 2012 by Stephen Darwin (ACT Division)

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   Ian Young abandons destructive 're-positioning' strategy!

   Published: 30 Apr, 2012
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   In an important victory for ANU members, Vice-Chancellor Ian Young has abandoned his plan to cut $25 million worth of jobs.

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   400 staff and students rally at Australian National University calling for destructive cost cutting proposals to be abandoned

   Posted 26 April 2012 by Stephen Darwin (ACT Division)

   
   

   A rally of over 400 staff and students held at ANU today demanded the time had come for Vice-Chancellor, Ian Young, to abandon his destructive cost cutting proposals.

   Throughout the ...

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   Students and staff marched to the Chancelry to present demands to abandon cuts.

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   More disturbing revelations about management accountablity at the University of Canberra

   Posted 10 April 2012 by Stephen Darwin (ACT Division)

   Today's Crikey Daily (http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/04/10/uni-of-canberra-restructure-and-how-students-were-warned-off-the-story/) carries a very disturbing story from a courageous journalism ...

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    Send an email to Ian Young about his 're-positioning' strategy

    Posted 5 April 2012 by Stephen Darwin (ACT Division)

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    No Job Cuts

    Welcome to the NTEU's site for you to provide your response directly to ANU's Vice-Chancellor on his 're-positioning' strategy. The NTEU has provided a letter which summarises the flawed nature of this proposed strategy and asks the Vice-Chancellor to abandon it before it causes additional damage to the University. It also asks ANU to engage the NTEU and the broader University community to help build a real future for the institution. Find out more...

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    Dear [appropriate name will be inserted],

    <div> <div> <blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;I write in response to your request for feedback on your 're-positioning' strategy announced on March 27.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>As an NTEU member, I support the decision of the union to reject this strategy as an appropriate approach to ensure sufficient investment in the ANU's future. Moreover, as the Union has argued, I am not convinced that the ANU is actually facing any real financial crisis, particularly given the surpluses it continues to have and the large portfolio of investments it maintains.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>I believe it is unacceptable to seek to close disciplines&nbsp;arbitrarily&nbsp;or remove staff based on the flawed argument of 'relative performance'. We have seen the enormous damage this has done to the University of Sydney and the staff who work in it. It is critical the ANU does not try this approach and bring about the same here.</div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>I urge you to abandon your proposed strategy before further damaging conflict develops. I urge you to seek to work constructively with the NTEU and the university community to identify positive strategies to enhance university resources. This should include pursuing proper Commonwealth funding for Australia's national university.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

    Yours Sincerely,
    

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