Bargaining to begin at U Tasmania

There’s a petition intended to put management on the back foot

It calls on VC Rufus Black to “bargain in good faith” on a range of issues and rule out “job losses in a programme of generalised cost-cutting.”

Sounds like a gratuitous bouncer sent down to unsettle a management opener but there’s a reason for it. Back in July, university management proposed senior staff cuts under a new structure for the university’s Australian Maritime College, soon after the end of last year’s agreement on savings to protect jobs from COVID-19 losses (CMM July 13). The timing was noted around U Tas.