The people have spoken on wage and condition offer

The enterprise agreement proposed by management and campus unions is less endorsed than acclaimed by staff. Around a third of people on the roll turned out and 96 per cent of them voted yes. The agreement now goes to the Fair Work Commission for approval.

Thus ends what appears one of the best managed, even-tempered negotiations of the university bargaining round now wrapping up. This is all the more impressive as it occurred while management and the National Tertiary Education Union were in in fierce disagreement over organisational restructure and staff changes.