The price of time at Uni Queensland

Management wants to delay enterprise bargaining for a year 

The university told staff last week that keeping the expiring agreement for 12 more months “would provide staff with greater stability at a time of uncertainty,” plus the university would add a 2 per cent pay-rise (which is probably what staff would get in a new agreement). (CMM July 21 and 23).

To which the campus membership of the National Tertiary Education Union responds, nothing doing, unless …

The unless is “there are commitments for improved job security for all categories of staff.”

And because extending the existing agreement requires an all-staff yea the union adds, “it will vigorously campaign against any proposed non-union variation.”

Management can still ask staff to vote for a 12-month extension without union support but job security would be the issue of the campaign.