Bargaining for Better Work

A new Enterprise Agreement for Monash University: 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 

Join your union!

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

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

Timeline of key events

March 2023

• Bargaining information session for for non-members
• Protected Action Ballot opens March 14

February 2023 

• Mass meeting endorses application to apply for PABO from Fair Work Commission
• Bargaining meeting #7
• Bargaining meeting #8

January 2023 

• Bargaining meeting #5 
• Bargaining meeting #6 

December 2022 

• NTEU Monash end of year BBQ 
• Mass meeting resolves to apply for Protect Action Ballot Order (PABO) if progress on job security and wages not made by end of Jan 2023
• Bargaining meeting #4

November 2022 

• Bargaining meeting #2
• Bargaining meeting #3 

October 2022

• Monash University issues Notice of Employee Representational Rights (NERR)
• Bargaining meeting #1: NTEU and Monash management meet for first time

September 2022

• Mass meeting to discuss delays to negotiations
  

July 2022

• NTEU Monash members formally endorse Log of Claims at all-members' meeting
  

June 2022

• Monash University Enterprise Agreement nominally expires
  

April 2022

• NTEU Monash Branch writes to management, asking to begin negotiations for a new Enterprise Agreement