Staff voted on a management pay and conditions offer last week – the union wants to know the result

The offer is opposed by the National Tertiary Education Union, and management went to staff after a tough bargaining round.

The poll closed on Thursday and NTEU general secretary Damien Cahill wants to know the result. He wrote to VC Harlene Hayne on Saturday, asking for the result to be released by 5pm yesterday, arguing, “it is highly unusual for results not to be announced quickly.” Dr Cahill added NTEU members at Curtin U are scheduled to take protected industrial action over enterprise bargaining today and that the results are needed, “in order that members of the NTEU are not inadvertently put at risk by having their action deemed unprotected industrial action through no fault of their own.”

Yesterday Curtin U told CMM, “the vote closed at 5pm Thursday and is currently being reconciled by the independent administrator.”