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Protected Action Ballots - The Facts
Fair Work Commission – Protected Action Ballots
When is a protected action ballot required?
A protected action ballot to authorise industrial action must be undertaken before industrial ...
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Senior Staff Salaries contradict pay offer to staff
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(718 KB) - PDFSenior Staff Salaries contradict pay offer to staff
Published: 21 May, 2013
Tags: Bargaining 2013, local issues, budget cuts, EB6,
Townsville newspaper runs a story on the yawning gap between massive payrises to senior staff at JCU and the offer made to staff in enterprise bargaining
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Early Retirement Incentive Scheme
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(1 MB) - PDFCorrespondence regarding consultation about the Early Retirement Incentive Scheme (ERIS) at JCU
Published: 21 May, 2013
Tags: consultation, local issues, change management
The union wrote to JCU regarding their lack of consultation over the ERIS, and asking that management postpone the implementation of the scheme until they had talked to us.
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Federal Court reinstates university professor sacked in sham redundancy
The Federal Court has ordered the reinstatement of Professor Judith Bessant at RMIT University in Melbourne – a judgement that the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) welcomes as a warning ...
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Abbott’s smoke and mirrors budget plan hits education hard
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) today warned that Federal Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, is hiding the range and breadth of funding cuts planned by the Coalition should it win ...
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NTEU welcomes Greens and Andrew Wilkie’s opposition to uni cuts legislation
The Greens and independent MP Andrew Wilkie this morning announced their support for the National Tertiary Education Union’s ‘uni cuts- dumb cuts’ campaign and declared their ...
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QLD Uni Cuts Protests
Rallies and Protests in Queensland on Budget Day - all
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(162 KB) - PDFUni Cuts Protests in QLD
Published: 13 May, 2013
Tags: dumb cuts,
Budget Day Rallies and Protests in Queensland
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National protests tomorrow for the restoration of university cuts
The NTEU is urging everyone who cares about higher education to join national protests tomorrow (Tuesday 14 May), to coincide with the Federal Government bringing down its budget.
“Right ...
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Government cuts will turn students away
Politicians and their advisers are out of step if they still think that there are no votes in higher education, National Tertiary Education Union President, Jeannie Rea said today in response to the ...
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Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty backs the 14 May national protest against university cuts
Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty backs the 14 May national protests against the latest $2.3bn university cuts. Protest actions are being organised across the country by the National Tertiary ...
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Have something to say? Add your voiceI am not invited to any meetings, and this year not even to the Christmas party or convening meeting for the program. It is useful to go, if only to be seen by the Head of School, but I never get paid if I do go.
