Union and community critics are cross, very cross, with management

National Tertiary Education Union members stopped work Thursday-Friday as part of enterprise bargaining negotiations, which members think management is dragging out.

And the Public Universities Australia group has written to Tasmanian premier, Jeremy Rockliff, urging him to ask U Tas to stop work on its “current development proposals”  until the current Legislative Council inquiry (into pretty much whatever the council wants to consider) is completed and its recommendations considered.

The “development proposals” are the university’s move from Sandy Bay to Hobart’s CBD, which is bitterly opposed by community members and some U Tas staff.

There’s a straw-vote on the move on the ballot paper for Hobart City Council elections, on now.

A big majority against the city move might be a problem for the premier but nowhere as big as the one it would be for Vice Chancellor Rufus Black.