HOW TO PLAY:
Your workload is soaring with chronic underfunding leading to rapidly expanding class sizes. Use lectures, emails and office hours to help your students graduate – but make sure you get home on time!
For years, we have been relentless in our fight to fix the broken governance model that has allowed almost $265 million in wages to be stolen from 150,000 staff—while vice-chancellors rake in more than $1 million each year on average.
More than 1,200 jobs are under threat across five universities including UTS, Macquarie, WSU, Wollongong, and CSU. These aren’t just numbers. They’re people’s livelihoods. They’re the lecturers, librarians, IT, professional staff, researchers, and student support staff that are the heart of our universities. We’re calling for stronger protections for workers, democratic oversight of university leadership, and a vision for higher education that puts staff, students and communities first.
NTEU is over 27,000 members standing up for secure jobs, fair pay and a say about how our universities and higher education providers are run.
Australian public universities have made commitments to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment in their enterprise agreements – but few have met them. Together we can pressure university leaders to honour their commitments and build more representative, culturally appropriate, safe and socially reflective universities.
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