On the National Tertiary Education Union website yesterday La Trobe U branch officials Virginia Mansel Lees and Gillian Stacey hopped into union branch presidents Melissa Slee (RMIT) and Paul Adams (Victoria U) about the relative merits of enterprise agreements on other campuses and comments about a dispute with LT U management.

Last month LT U IR staff announced the new enterprise agreement meant academic staff had to account for all working hours and need specific permission to be off campus. This was quickly hosed down by union state secretary Colin Long (CMM July 6) but it seems the memory is still fresh among critics.

While Ms Mansell Lees and Dr Stacey do not mention the election campaign now underway, Dr Slee leads a ticket contesting Victorian division positions against Dr Long, who is running for a third term.