Bargaining for Better Work

A new Enterprise Agreement for Monash University: Read the NTEU Log of Claims

The Log of Claims (LoC) lists the main improvements to pay and working conditions that NTEU Monash members want in this round of negotiations. Branch members voted on the following key priorities:

• Safer, fairer workloads for all staff
• Improved protections against restructures
• 80% secure, ongoing employment by 2024
• A decent pay-rise
• All hours paid for all hours worked for casual staff
• Flexible working arrangements and the right to work from home 

Your NTEU Monash Branch bargaining team:

• Michelle Giovas - NTEU Monash Branch Vice-President (Professional) & Lead Negotiator
• Dr Ben Eltham - NTEU Monash Branch President
• Dr Scott Robinson - NTEU Monash Branch Casuals' Representative
• Dr Alice De Jonge - NTEU Monash Branch Committee Ordinary Member 

Supported by NTEU Victorian Division Industrial Officers.

Read more about our team here.

Contact us via email: [email protected] or follow the Branch on Facebook or Twitter:

"My Union Wrote an EBA": NTEU Monash Branch Bargaining Podcast
Members of the Monash University Branch of the NTEU have created a podcast to chronicle the progress towards a new Enterprise Agreement. Our aim is to release an episode after each bargaining meeting to keep everyone up to date with what's happening inside the bargaining room, and help de-mystify some of the ins and outs of negotiating an Agreement in the Australian higher education sector. Listen to any of the individual episodes below, or find them in full here.  

• Episode One: Bargaining 101
• Episode Two: A Tale of Two Logs w. Ben Eltham
• Episode Three: A Casual Casuals' Chat with Casual, Scott Robinson
• Episode Four: Professionally Speaking w. Michelle Giovas and Adam Fernandes
• Episode Five: Reflecting Back and Projecting Forward w. Ben Eltham and Scott Robinson
• Episode Six: All Things Industrial Action w. Campbell Smith
• Episode Seven: PABO Time! w. Amelia and Sofie
• Episode Eight: Ready, Set PABO!
• Episode Nine: Why We Can't Keep Waiting
• Episode Ten: Messages from Margaret
• Episode Eleven: Student Solidarity
• Episode Twelve: State-wide Strike Special
• Episode Thirteen: State of the Uni w. Ben Eltham
• Episode Fourteen: Work, Work, Work
• Episode Fifteen: The 'Everyone is on Leave' Episode
• Episode Sixteen: In Which the University Continues to Advocate for Wage Theft
• Episode Seventeen: Open Day Extravaganza
• Episode Eighteen: Picketing the Paris End of Collins St
• Episode Nineteen: Strike Solidarity w. Abigail and Thomas from UniMelb
• Episode Twenty: Hype the Strike
• Episode Twenty One: The Strike That Was and Where To From Here
• Episode Twenty Two: The University is on Notice
• Episode Twenty Three: 2023, the Year That Was
• Episode Twenty Four: Lessons from the Teach-In, Part 1
• Episode Twenty Five: Lessons from the Teach-In, Part 2

• Bonus Episode One: Talking Western Sydney Uni w. Gavin Smith