Staff go on half-day strike: Monday 8 December
Over 250 NTEU members went on strike, filling to over-flowing the stop-work meeting at 1pm on Monday 8 December.
Members voted on several motions, including unanimously endorsing a full 24 hour strike on Monday 15 December.
Motions December 8th Stop work
1. That this meeting condemn:
- The unnecessary decision of the Vice-Chancellor to continue to proceed with her program of forced redundancies;
- The ongoing failure of VU Council and senior management to consult with staff before implementing major decisions and failure of senior management to manage the University properly;
- The complete lack of respect shown by senior management for the hard working staff of Victoria University; and
- The complete disloyalty shown by management to the University in seeking to destroy Victoria University and education in the western region.
- The devastating effect the redundancies will have class sizes and teacher-student ratios.
Carried unanimously
2. That this meeting endorse the NTEU’s Enterprise Bargaining log of claims, particularly its claim for job security with no forced retrenchments.
Carried unanimously
3. That this meeting endorse the following actions by NTEU Members in pursuit of a new Collective Agreement at Victoria University. Unless and until such an Agreement is reached, the Union should implement these actions over the coming weeks:
- Comprehensive bans on Making VU, including all course reviews which involve incorporation of any of the five commitments, professional development associated with Making VU, attendance of cluster meetings and attendance of any seminars associated with Making VU;
- Bans on contribution to VU’s Higher Education Research Data Collection processes, including faculty and school level processes;
- Bans on contribution to VU’s course and unit management systems, including the CAMS process and related reporting activities.
- Bans on any recording, or transmission to the University, of assessment results for University Summer School units; and
- A 24 hour strike commencing on Monday 15 December, to involve pickets on higher education campuses, a boycott of the Vice-Chancellor’s end-of-year party, and coincide with a rank-and-file end-of-year staff party — come and celebrate the end-of-the-year with your friends and colleagues at Footscray Rowing Club!
Carried unanimously
4. That this meeting call on the National Office and Victorian Division of the NTEU to establish a subdivision of the National Defence Fund to help support staff and families taking even more forceful industrial action in the New Year.
Carried unanimously
5. That this meeting supports the general campaign against senior management’s proposed round of redundancies in their entirety.
Carried
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