Staff at the University of New South Wales have gone on strike today to secure more permanent roles for casual academic and professional staff. After a year of delayed negotiations, hundreds of UNSW staff and students will be on the ...

Seasonal academic Dr Jack Kirne said he has been driven well past his breaking point and will be striking for better working conditions during this week's nationwide university strikes. This week, thousands of university staff across Australia will strike against ...

Staff from multiple universities will stage major strikes this week over rising frustrations around wage theft, heavy workloads and workforce casualisation. On Wednesday, staff from the University of Melbourne, Monash University and Deakin University will walk off their jobs with ...

Staff at the University of Sydney have voted to agree to a provisional enterprise agreement after nearly two years of bargaining, ending the longest-running strike campaign seen in any Australian university. On Tuesday, nearly 700 union members voted in favour ...

Deakin University has pushed forward a non-union ballot for staff after wage negotiations with the union reached "an impasse". On Friday, Deakin University's chief people and culture officer Stacey Walton told staff via e-mail that enterprise agreement talks with the ...

Staff at the University of Sydney have voted to continue rolling industrial action marking the longest-running strike campaign seen in any Australian university. On Friday, staff from the university formed picket lines in front of the university's Camperdown campus marking ...

More than 90 per cent of James Cook University (JCU) staff have reported a lack of trust in the university management's capacity to make 'good decisions' about the institution's future. The JCU branch of the National Tertiary Education Union surveyed ...

Staff from Sydney University have gone on strike over casualisation, work conditions and wages for the seventh time since the union began bargaining in August 2021. On Thursday, hundreds of full-time and casual staff formed picket lines after negotiations stalled ...

Universities are being advised how to avoid getting roped into multi-employer agreements under a leaked “strategy road map” that unions claim is “incontrovertible proof” the universities want to try to push through substandard pay deals. The Australian Higher Education Industrial ...

Australian universities have underpaid their staff by at least $107.8 million since 2020, according to a new report. The ‘NTEU wage theft report’, released Monday, analysed 34 separate incidents of wage theft across 22 universities and found the University of ...