Uni Wollongong VC Paul Wellings offers three options, the union doesn’t like any of them

The university’s alternatives went to staff last week (CMM Friday). Two are intended to save jobs from the COVID-19 crunch UoW faces. “There will be significantly fewer forced redundancies,” under either, the university told staff.

The third option is to do nothing, which would mean, “job losses will be substantial.”

The alternatives go to an all-staff vote today and the campus branch of the National Tertiary Education Union urges staff not to vote for either pay-cut, arguing they do not protect staff. It calls on the vice chancellor to consult with staff and to make that happens urges people “to vote for option three to get us to option four.”

However, yesterday, in a message to staff answering questions on his proposal Professor Wellings told staff, “we are only able to work with the three options before you.”

“Our choices over the next few days will be an important indicator on how the university should approach the difficult decisions we have to make over the next 30 month,” he said.