The University of Melbourne has been punished for threatening two casual academics after they requested to be paid fairly.
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More shameful #HigherEducation management as Federation University plans to cut 12% of its workforce, threatening staff, students and local communities.
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The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral | Goldsmiths, University of London | The Guardian theguardian.com/education/2024…

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We already knew universities were unsafe work environments, and this research adds to the compelling body of evidence.

With new legislation in place, I think that we start to see people coming forward to report psychosocial hazards to authorities, and universities will face…

I’m still thinking about this research published here in Australia recently which revealed that two-thirds of university staff are exhausted, burnt out, and at high risk of psychological injury at work.

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In 2020, the sector’s biggest wage thief, University of Melbourne management, illegally threatened 2 staff who questioned their pay. While it’s pleasing management’s been fined $75K, with >$160m stolen from university staff this behaviour is widespread. Urgent action is required.

'Rampant casualisation has fuelled an insidious culture of exploiting, which leads to workers' livelihoods being threatened for simply asking to be paid properly' - Alison Barnes . Help us achieve secure work and end wage theft at universities nteu.au/join

ShiannonCorcoran💉x4 My late Dad always spoke highly of unions, he was very much a working class man. Fortunately I have never had a need for a union, but sit back in amazement at the work of the NTEU Victoria I have always paid union fees, as a sign of support, past and present.

Without urgent governance reform, unaccountable vice-chancellors will keep making terrible decisions that harm universities. FedUni management must abandon these cuts.

Our NTEU Victoria campaign to stop Federation University from cutting 200 positions is heating up this week, with our story running in regional & national media. Members have called rallies at our main campuses on April 30, May 1 & 2 to pressure management into reversing its decision

The threat to punish casual staff for seeking to be paid for the work they have performed demonstrates the urgent need for major changes to universities' broken governance model.

This seems like an important precedent, and one that could be relevant to many other sectors.

Exactly.

1/ 🧵 The Murdoch media and some powerful groups want to bring down my colleague Randa Abdel-Fattah. Make no mistake, this is part of an organised and orchestrated campaign to destroy her career.

Let me show you some of the incredible things she's written over the years.

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The Victorian Government continues to ignore NTEU Victoria requests to grant casual #HigherEd workers access to this scheme, while also taking no steps to decrease the appallingly high rates of casualisation in the sector Gayle Tierney MP #UniGovernance #BetterUniversities

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Some colleagues and I are working on a research project about bad PhD supervision experiences and the stories we have heard so far are truly horrendous.

Life (and your time as a PhD student) is too short to endure bad supervision.

Please put your well-being first and seek…