Staff strikes at Victoria University

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James Vassilopoulos, Melbourne

On March 8, staff at Victoria University (VU) went on strike in support of their demands for a new enterprise agreement. A picket line was established to persuade scabs and students not to enter the university. The VU branch of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is seeking a 22.5% salary increase and for the agreement to last until mid-2008.

"Management will try to show that they are unconcerned about the industrial action and will try to wear us down. Staff, however, have had a gutful of empty managerial rhetoric", Dr Jamie Doughney, president of the VU branch of the NTEU said. Further industrial action is planned for March 23-24.

From Green Left Weekly, March 16, 2005.
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