As anticipated in CMM Friday, James Cook University management and the National Tertiary Education Union are jointly recommending a new enterprise agreement to staff. This follows bitter bargaining in which the university management pushed hard for simplified employment conditions which the union dug in against. This leave Murdoch University as the sole standard bearer for the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association Campaign to roll back the codification of union rights on staff discipline procedures and workplace change.
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