The RMIT enterprise agreement expired a year ago – the union says its way over time for bargaining to begin

National Tertiary Education Union members have voted not to undertake voluntary and unpaid work in August – which is when RMIT’s open days are on.

The agreement’s nominal expiry date was June 30 2020. The campus branch of the National Tertiary Education Union has long-since issued its log of claims, including a 5 per cent per annum pay rise.

The university increased pay by 2 per cent in June.

“Our members at RMIT need an Enterprise Agreement that recognises rising cost of living pressures, recognises the continued excessive workloads of staff, and recognises the hard grind by members to return RMIT and other Victorian universities to surplus,” NTEU Victorian assistant secretary Sarah Roberts says.

The least the RMIT VC can do is to start bargaining now.”

The university advised yesterday that no date is set for bargaining to commence.