National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU)

Vic NTEU strikes, Islamophobia in France & why you need Green Left. September 13, 2023.

Green Left journalist’s Isaac Nellist and Chloe DS go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world.

The National Tertiary Education Union at Monash University protested outside a meeting of the university’s Executive Council in support of their enterprise agreement. Brenna Dempsey reports.

A stop-work meeting by more than 250 National Tertiary Education Union members at RMIT decided to continue industrial action. Jordan AK reports.

Striking workers

The National Tertiary Education Union at the University of Melbourne has begun a week of industrial action, after more than a year of failed negotiations. Jacob Andrewartha reports.

The Monash University branch of the National Tertiary Education Union took their enterprise bargaining campaign to prospective students, after a year of very little progress. Brenna Dempsey reports.

While concrete details remain patchy, job security is not the only troubling aspect of Premier Peter Malinauskas' decision to merge the University of Adelaide and UniSA. Binoy Kampmark reports.

 

More than 150 staff and students at the University of Melbourne  supported a 24-hour strike over a management plan to fund a staff pay rise from their superannuation. Jordan AK reports.

National Tertiary Education Union members, students, families and community members joined a protest in the Wadawurrung/Ballarat CBD over an impasse in wages negotiations at Federation University. Jeremy Smith reports.

NTEU members struck and rallied at James Cook Universities’ two larger campuses in Townsville and Cairns, joining the union’s nationwide campaign. Jonathan Strauss reports.

NTEU members holding banner

More than 600 Victorian National Tertiary Education Union members crammed into Victorian Trades Hall for their first stop-work meeting in a decade, as part of their fight for better conditions and fair pay. Mary Merkenich reports.

National Tertiary Education Union members at the University of Sydney voted to end industrial action. Jim McIlroy talks to NTEU members Markela Panegyres and Kevin Fine about what it means.

Students from the University of Sydney held a speak out in front of the Vice Chancellor’s office at Eastern Avenue to protest Universities Australia support for the AUKUS military alliance. Jim McIlroy reports.