Last week management made what it called a “competitive” 16 per cent pay offer – close to that at local frenemy – Uni Sydney

But overall not good enough. National Tertiary Education Union General Secretary Damian Cahill told CMM, UNSW “falls short of pay rises at other universities across Sydney. UNSW is a wealthy, top tier university and can afford to pay more to its hard working staff in the midst of the most severe cost of living crisis in a generation.”

And now the campus branch of the union says on its count the offer annualises at 3.25 per cent per annum over four years – less than March Quarter CPI.  Plus after a year of bargaining, “we deserve a better deal” on job security.

And so protected industrial action continues.