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Posts tagged with VU
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Round Six of university enterprise bargaining is underway
Round Six of university enterprise bargaining is underway following a successful meeting of approximately eighty delegates from across NTEU’s university branches to debate key strategies and ...
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Bans on student results at UNSW and VU
Members will probably have seen media reports on enterprise bargaining negotiations at VU and UNSW, and in particular the current protected industrial action in the form of the withholding of student ...
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VU Management lose Full Bench appeal: ‘no changes’ means no changes
A long-running dispute at Victoria University (VU) over the Academic Workloads Model has finally been resolved in favour of the NTEU. A Full Bench decision from Fair Work Australia (FWA) on 18 June ...
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Attack on academic freedom at VU
In an astounding move, the Chancellor of Victoria University is threatening to sue an academic staff member. Dr Jamie Doughney, a senior lecturer and NTEU Victorian Division President, has been threatened with legal action over critical remarks he made in the media about the plan by Victoria University to make over 270 staff redundant.
Government solicitor John Cain jnr has sent a letter on behalf of the chancellor, Supreme Court judge Frank Vincent, to James Doughney, a member of the university’s governing council, demanding he withdraw and apologise for an attack on Victoria University chiefs over their plan to slash hundreds of
