Some 96 per cent of voting Swinburne University staff approved the management-union recommended enterprise agreement reached late last month (CMM November 23). “This is an excellent outcome for our staff and for Swinburne,” Vice Chancellor Linda Kristjanson says. It certainly is, while this deal took months the last one took years, which is why Professor Kristjanson, “acknowledges” PVC Chris Pilgrim, Swinburne’s bargaining team and the National Tertiary Education Union, “for conducting such a collaborative and constructive period of bargaining.”