Dear VU NTEU Member
On 22 April, VU NTEU members came together to say they’re sick of waiting for a new enterprise agreement. Together, members have resolved to take a range of actions in support of reaching an agreement that provides safe working conditions and better pay for us all.
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Upcoming Industrial Actions
On 22 April, VU NTEU members resolved to take the following actions:
- A direct action between 12pm to 1pm on Wednesday May 1, 2024, at Footscray Park and City Tower VU Campuses for the purpose of taking a Solidarity Photograph. Come along to grab your fresh off the loom new purple NTEU beanie! Learn more and register here.
- That VU staff will make statements while working, explaining why members of the NTEU are taking industrial action from May 1, 2024, until the end of the current round of bargaining at Victoria University.
- That VU NTEU Branch will take action in the form of work bans and a rally between 11am and 1pm in the week beginning 20 May, if significant progress has not been achieved in EA Bargaining meetings by Friday 17 May, as determined by the NTEU Bargaining Team. NTEU academic members will not attend all or part of the Final Friday meetings in any College, and professional staff members will stop work or implement bans on specific VU online systems in their work area during these two hours. Public action to highlight the unsafe workloads prevalent throughout VU will be taken during this time.
- That if satisfactory in-principle agreement cannot be reached resolving all the Union’s claims by Friday 31 May, VU staff will undertake significant industrial action from Monday 3 June to Friday 7 June that will stop the performance of teaching work by NTEU VU members.
More information and resources regarding the teaching action will be provided following our solidarity photo event on May 1. These will include template emails for communicating with sessional teaching teams, slides for speaking with students, a student solidarity pack and much more.
IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO JOIN THE FIGHT!
Become a member by joining the National Tertiary Education Union so you can join members at VU in taking protected industrial action and bans. Industrial action and bans by their nature are aimed to be disruptive and place pressure on management to agree to our fair, reasonable and important claims at the bargaining table.
**Remember - only union members can take protected industrial action**
It's your right to be a union member and union dues are tax deductible. More info about membership here.
For more information about Industrial Action please see the VU NTEU Website here.
SUPPORT
If you have specific concerns about your personal situation please email [email protected] or if needed, request legal and industrial assistance from the NTEU Member Help@Work portal (to log in for the first time, request the ‘Forgot Password’ option and use the email address that you receive these newsletters from).
In Unity
NTEU Victoria University Branch