CDU is putting an enterprise agreement offer to staff and the National Tertiary Education Union is unhappy

So unhappy that national president Alison Barnes is in Darwin campaigning against the management proposal, which she tweets is a “shoddy deal” on pay and “workers’ rights.”

Management’s offer is a 4 per cent pay rise on staff agreeing to the offer, with another 2 per cent in October ’23 and again in ’24, plus leave improvements and a signing bonus (max $500).

There may be another reason Dr Barnes has gone north – the union opposed an agreement at Southern Cross U and narrowly lost the vote last week. The NTEU does not often lose like that and with bargaining underway across the county may not want it to look like a trend.

Voting commences next Tuesday.