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On May 1, 2023, VU
NTEU members delivered our log of claims to management. One year later, after
the NTEU bargaining team has done a vast amount of work preparing, researching
and presenting the urgent need and rationalisations behind member’s important claims
during negotiations with management. VU management has made no concessions
on our reasonable demands for secure jobs, flexible work, and fair and safe
workloads.
NTEU
Members have given repeatedly given reasonable arguments for why these changes
are necessary but management hasn’t agreed. It is therefore the bargaining
team’s recommendation that management’s unwillingness to negotiate on key
claims is unacceptable, leaving members with no option but to take protected
industrial action.
Upcoming Industrial Actions
On 22 April, VU
NTEU members resolved to take the following actions:
1. 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. Learn more here.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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 uploaded to this website on
May 1, 2024.