National Tertiary Education Union members at WSU’s pathway college have voted to take industrial action

They will go out tomorrow week in support of a pay claim. This has been dragging on since August, when college management proposed a 1.25 per cent annual pay rise across a three year agreement. The union knocked it back so college management put the offer to staff and 80 per cent of those who voted did the same (CMM August 9).

What may have appeared to some as paltry then will look even less now that inflation is an issue – the NTEU has increased its previous pay demand on all universities from an original 12.5 per cent over three years, to 15 per cent, (CMM April 21).

The union’s members at WSU itself have also voted to take industrial action over a range of bargaining issues, including pay (CMM May 17).