The members` voting calendar was published on an NTEU website called savelatrobejobs. This highly dubious campaign slogan was linked to the online ballot itself, as well as the erroneous assertion that the union supports the changes. The NTEU has devoted considerable resources to telephone banks and SMS members to vote yes – an attempt that does not extend to local organisation against non-union variants such as at the University of Melbourne. At the University of Melbourne, management is questioning the change to the company agreement for employees this week. This change would reduce wages by 2.2% – one weekly allowance per year – and reduce severance pay. The union opposes this variant and asserts that management cannot be trusted and that „if the university is so serious about job salvage, why are there no enforceable provisions for the job economy in its proposed variant?“ These are exactly the arguments that NTEU Fightback activists have put forward all the time. The Trobe U follows U Tas and UWA in guaranteeing an enterprise agreement between employees and with strong majorities. In all three cases, management worked with union leaders on campus and placed the proposal first with its members. In contrast, the University of Melbourne and the University of Wollongong have lost decisive austerity proposals that have been rejected by trade unions. We are pleased to inform you that the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), the Union of Communities and the Public Sector (CPSU) and the Union of Service, Hotel and Restaurant and Fermentation Union Workers (LHMU) have ratified a new enterprise pact for staff at the University of La Trobe.
The agreement is one of the first long-term agreements to be fully concluded in this sector and to be in force until 30 June 2012. The agreement was concluded through hard work and cooperation negotiations. The new agreement will be made available to La Trobe staff: the new role of project manager – major leisure projects will have the main effect of planning and carrying out the transformations of Ted Summerton Reserve, Morwell Recreation Reserve and Latrobe City Sports – Entertainment Stadium, as well as helping to carry out a number of other major leisure projects throughout the city. They work with community groups, contractors, consultants and Council staff to achieve sustainable and economically sustainable results for the Latrobe Valley. NTEU activist and NTEU national councillor Alma Torlakovic said: „Wage cuts do not save jobs. The management of the university attacked the employees in the good times, and now they are attacking them in the wrong. The support of these agreements indicates that workers are an easy target and that we will pay for a crisis that we have not caused. They reject them by protecting enterprise agreements and protecting enterprise agreements and by telling the federal state and the federal states that they must make up for the deficit elsewhere. This is a great asset for Vice-Chancellor John Dewar, who campaigned for the proposed variants of the enterprise agreement, warns LT U is in COVID-19 financial conflict catalyzed. La Trobe Media Questions: Mark Pearce Media – Communications Manager, La Trobe University Mobile: 0423 783 756 E-mail: m.pearce@latrobe.edu.au NTEU Media Requests: Associate Professor Rhonda Small Ph: 03 8341 8542 Mobile: 0434 027 760 Vice-Chancellor Martin Bean announces consultations on voluntary layoffs. „We have tightened discretionary spending, frozen the hiring and spending of external consultants, maintained business and capital projects, and asked our senior managers and staff to make voluntary contributions.
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