Unions and management at Uni New England urge staff to endorse the proposed enterprise agreement, the final negotiation in the seventh cycle of Juliard enterprise bargaining

While the Fair Work Commission has the power to knock-back the few agreements it is yet to approve short of such VC-union officials’ heads-exploding event it is all over.

But lovers of the Jacobean tragedy that is bargaining need not despair. A first mention of “creeping casualisation” as a big issue in round eight is heard at ANU, where bargaining starts next year, (CMM February 20).