More than 600 Victorian National Tertiary Education Union members crammed into Victorian Trades Hall for their first stop-work meeting in a decade, as part of their fight for better conditions and fair pay. Mary Merkenich reports.
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University聽of Sydney NTEU聽members told Jim McIlroy on the picket line that the 鈥渂ig battle鈥 is with a management that wants to 鈥渢ake away long-standing staff rights and entitlements鈥.
If anything reflected Bernie Neville鈥檚 view on the working class, it was his often-repeated phrase: 鈥淣o surrender!鈥 Dave Riley reflects on the life of a militant unionist.
Unionists and students have set up picket lines at the University of Sydney in support of their claim for permanency, First Nations employment targets聽and reasonable workloads. Jim McIlroy reports.
Unionists and their聽families rallied for secure jobs on February 19. Steve O'Brien reports
Adele Welsh argues聽that no matter how it is dressed up, the聽'let it rip' approach to the pandemic has caused untold harm to families, workplaces and communities.
Casual workers at the University of Sydney have launched a $2 million wage theft claim against university management.聽Georgie Dixon reports.
Neoliberalism has turned universities into 鈥渉ungry鈥 institutions that act like zombies: consuming brains for profit rather than enriching minds. Aleks Wansbrough discusses the crisis in higher education.
As COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out and lock downs and economic crisis measures wind up, the federal government is painting a rosy view of the economic recovery. But, as Neville Spencer argues, this is far from the reality for millions of casual and insecure workers.
Overwhelmed nurses, carers, elderly residents and their families have exposed that a root cause of so much of the neglect in private centres is understaffing.聽Jim McIlroy reports.
The federal government and employers are using the pandemic recession to further undermine job security and employment conditions. Graham Matthews argues that their 鈥渋ncreased flexibility鈥 is our growing insecurity.
Ultimately, the only way to ensure a secure future for jobs is to replace the whole capitalist system with one in which human need is prioritised above corporate profits.
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