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.