Monash Casuals Network
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We're a grassroots group of casuals at Monash University, fighting for casual conditions & voices. Rank & file @NTEUNational . Check out our mates @CUPUWorkers
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Zionists openly celebrating the firebombing of Burgatory restaurant in Caulfield this morning should be a wake-up call to Australians defending this hateful ideology.
#FreePalestine
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That
@MonashUni
management has moved to disallow our casually employed bargaining representative from negotiations because all sessional teachers are made redundant at the end of semester 'til teaching recommences in the new year tells you everything you need to know about Uni HR
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Few at Monash realise that 40+ casual library staff have already lost their jobs. Their work is essential to education and research at the University
@beneltham
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Daniel Andrews confirming that casualised work kills
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Semi regular reminder that
@AusUnemployment
are awesome. The trade union bureaucracy, and the people they pay for political advertising, could learn a thing or two from the AUWU's amazing organising.
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Solidarity from your Monash comrades for the epic week-long strike
@UniMelb
beginning today!!
Many casuals hold contracts at Monash and other Unis like UniMelb concurrently. It's the same fight.
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Monash Uni has just posted a surplus of $411 million and they are.. checks direction from Arts faculty education officers.. needing you to cut online tutorials and work for free next semester.
#WageTheft
#Again
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Glad that the Australian union movement is slowly getting behind welfare advocacy. Sad that it took mass unemployment to make it happen.
Don't forget that
@AusUnemployment
have been putting in the hard yards in this space. Join the AUWU!
#KeepTheRate
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Today
@MonashUni
has reported their own finding of $8.6 million in systemic underpayments to casual academics.
As we know, and as
@CasualsUsyd
have said: this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Self-reporting wage theft to the FWO is not good enough when it is this widespread.
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Never has it been clearer that managements' attacks on staff working conditions are attacks on students learning conditions too.
RMIT University takes disciplinary action against students who supported striking staff. This is ridiculous and authoritarian and needs to be stopped.
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Might not be a meme but a ripper agenda for the Causals Network Meeting today. We had to get creative to get by the censorship coming down from above.
#solidarityinprecarity
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Such as most of the 50+ library staff Monash fired being women 🙊
Last week
@GardmarM
,
@ProfSPickering
,
@JacquiTrue
and
@Kate_FitzGibbon
met with Governor-General, His Excellency the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd) and Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley to discuss recent research on the gendered impacts of COVID-19.
@MonashUni
@GpsMonash
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Wondering how something awful as this happens?:
Here's an exclusive look into how university management makes decisions:
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@AusUnemployment
@gerardthomas_1
@simonecasey
@ACOSS
@welfare_rights
@CasualsUsyd
@UNSWcasuals
@NHECasuals
@raffwu
Why are you endangering people for jobs that don't exist
@SenatorCash
Abolish parasitic private employment services and give the $$$$$$$$$ to the people your government has condemned to poverty
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Oh wow an ass. prof with a double-barrelled surname thinks unions are entitled for fighting for secure jobs and a better workplace.
Meritocracy is dead!
*some* unimelb staff are going on strike. others, like me, aren't, because the "secure work" demand to convert casual tutoring positions to permanent ongoing academic jobs with a default 40% research component is the kind of demand only the most entitled person completely…
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Casual tutors are reporting classrooms with 25 students in a room this semester. Here's how that breaks down on costs:
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This is absolutely laughable. There are nearly 8000 people employed at Monash and more than half of them are in insecure employment (casuals or fixed-term staff).
Transitioning casual teachers to 5-month fixed term (semester) positions is not a solution.
Shame on
@MonashUni
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This is why we're striking. Monash management has no plans to respect its long-serving staff like Philippa.
The writing is on the wall. Time's up for insecure contracts that lead directly to the unlawful exploitation of Monash employees.
See you at the rally. 12pm Trades Hall.
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The absolute state of this. Solidarity with
@JoelGriggsy
At Monash we used to have paid academic integrity meetings that the student and tutor would attend with the chief examiner.
They've been replaced with an automated form which sends the student an email.
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Monash has just announced its operations policy for the National Day of Mourning next Thursday.
All continuing and fixed-term staff receive a paid holiday. Casual staff not required to work will not be paid.
That is unfair.
We call on
@MonashUni
to pay their staff equally.
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We reckon our advocacy could use more memes, what do you think
@NTEUNational
@NTEUVictoria
@beneltham
@NHECasuals
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Did
@MakeMayoMatter
and
@Stirling_G
even consider that maybe the solution to skills shortages are fully-funded universities and TAFEs? Congratulations Centre Alliance, you might have just killed Australia's higher education sector in exchange for a few pennies more for SA.
A comment from Rebekha Sharkie in the very lengthy statement released by the Centre Alliance on its decision to support the uni reform bill (emphasis mine). I've put the whole statement, in 3 parts, on the blog.
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Monash members have just voted overwhelmingly to go out for 48hrs from midday October 9.
We have collectively decided to take the strongest industrial action seen at Monash in over a decade.
Let's goooooo.
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This went off. So great to rally in solidarity with Professional staff and students
@NTEUMonash
We also voted unanimously in agreement that the campaign now escalates further. Strikes, pickets, operational disruption all scheduled for future dates.
Join us in the fight!
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Monash employees may have seen the VC crowing about hundreds of "conversions" to fixed term and ongoing contracts in the past year.
We ask: is a five month, fixed-term engagement so different to casualised work at Monash? Is it secure employment?
What do YOU think?
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It's great that
@NTEUNational
is taking wage theft seriously and launching a national campaign, but why weren't casuals consulted? Casuals networks across the country have been leading these fights already.
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This is why the passing of the Secure Jobs, Better Pay bill today is significant - we're waiting to see what the response from the sector will be. But if it is act in bad faith then they can expect a revolt from staff.
We're demanding better conditions. We won't go backwards.
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Yes! We'll be picketing it on October 11!!
Exciting times ahead!
A beautiful view of our Caulfield Campus. 🤩
Can you spot your building here?
📸: Yujing Gao
#MonashUni
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If the Jobs Protection Framework is going to save us why haven't we seen any casual supporting it
@NTEUNational
?
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Solidarity with
@antipovertycent
and
@kristin8X
Media Watch's attempts to discredit her work say more about the political line run by
@TheRealPBarry
than anything about the housing crisis and Australians living in poverty.
If it isn't centrist dribble, it must be expunged?
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Monash Casuals Network has passed a motion supporting
@AusUnemployment
's
#KeepTheRate
campaign ✊
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Universities sit on stolen Indigenous land. They create massive profit margins by stealing wages and extracting exorbitant fees from students. They steal knowledge from marginalised communities and research students on poverty wages. The colonial university is based on theft.
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Still preferable to class sizes of 30+ in badly ventilated rooms.
Aren’t you glad the classroom this semester doesn’t look like this?
Technology has changed so much in the 60 years since this photo was taken! No need for paper or chunky technology anymore (Students in economics statistics class, 1963).
📸:
@MonashArchive
#MonashUni
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"we also wanted to prevent this happening to anyone else in the future."
The notion that these underpayments were 'inadvertent' and not baked into the system of casualisation is exposed here by MCN members Michael, Lucy and Angus:
Precarious academic workers at Australia’s largest university got organized to win back $8.6 million in stolen wages.
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The
@NTEUNational
decision to suspend fees for new casual members was a great idea and has led to unprecedented casual activism. This offer ended on 16 May. Many important battles are still to come and expanding casual membership is essential. We ask the NTEU to extend the offer.
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Proud to say the Monash Branch of the NTEU has just passed the following motion led by Monash Casuals Network reps in solidarity with trans and gender diverse people:
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From the Monash University annual report:
It seems the VC Margaret Gardner is comfortable with an annual pay rise of 12%, perhaps we should expect the same? No? What's that? 3% you say? Ok 🙃
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Solidarity with all
@MonashUni
staff today learning where the targeted cuts will take place. Imagine ‘rationalising courses’ by using student demand as the only indicator. Is this education?
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Uni managements are getting freaked by the organising, doing stuff like this 👀
For 4.5 years, I have prominently displayed a union poster on my office door. This weekend, in advance of
@UniMelb
Open Day *someone* conspicuously removed it and all other union related posters from the floor.
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We have got word that a casual from Monash Uni will be on 7.30 tonight. Tune in!
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Solidarity with International Students.
#solidarityinprecarity
Foreign students, totally abandoned by the Commonwealth Government queue around the block for support from the Melbourne Council in the poring winter rain. Unbelievable
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Another insight into managerial decision-making in higher education.
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@s0ft_rubbish
all the tramstops in naarm are now managed by advertising companies like adshel and jcdecaux. including the amenities like seating etc. ...contracted by vic gov.
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Student Fightback at Monash kicking arse. Thanks for the solidarity! See you on Friday - link below.
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Heartbreaking comments from Monash staff in the VC chat today. This is what management does - why would we trust them at their word?
#VoteNoAtMonash
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Troubling to hear that
@MonashUni
has allowed the student encampment in solidarity with Gaza to be attacked again tonight.
Support the students.
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@kristin8X
@AusUnemployment
@SenatorSiewert
@UnitedWorkersOz
@unionsaustralia
@MaritimeUnionAU
@CPSUTas
@rankandfileLTU
@NTEUfightback
@CPSUnion
@AWUnion
@NTEUNational
@NTEUVictoria
@NHECasuals
@DeakinrF
@CasualsUsyd
@UNSWcasuals
We're going to pressure our local branch, and try to get our colleagues across the country behind it ✊ It's time the union movement understood that solidarity with the AUWU is not just a moral argument, but a strategic one as well. Our struggles are intertwined ❤
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The best part was when Glyn Davis unexpectedly walked out of the Liberal Party HQ straight into this:
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Great meeting tonight with fellow casuals from La Trobe, UQ, ANU, Flinders, Murdoch, Fed Uni, UNSW, Curtin, MelbUni, USyd, Swinburne, RMIT, Adelaide, Deakin, Vic Uni, and potentially more! The start of a National Higher Education Casuals Network.
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Thank you to the Monash Branch Committee for backing our motion against the
@NTEUNational
executive and their collaboration with management on casual conditions
@MonashUni
The motion was carried by a large majority of the branch committee today
Open consultation is needed here.
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Solidarity from the NTEU contingent - Vic Division branch presidents of VU, Fed., LTU and more unis there representing members from across the state today.
More than 10,000 people joined our rally for Palestine today!
Melbourne was full of Palestinian flags and kufiyehs!
Palestine will be free!
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Very excited to announce Bernard Keo has been declared the Casuals Representative on the Monash Branch of the NTEU. Bernard has been a tireless campaigner for casual and sessional conditions at the Uni. Michael Lazarus moved to the BC after five years as casuals rep. 1/2
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It is a hard habit to kick when wage-theft is your business model
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Will university managements be shrinking in line with job losses? Will there be less assistant deans, junior associates in digital transformation, entrepreneurs in residence, monetisation managers, international student exploitation consultants?
#SaveHigherEdJobs
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Can we also talk about how hard it is to deal with chronic health conditions in insecure work?
Feel like death and can barely get out of bed? Too bad, rent is due and you might not get any more work if you call out sick
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This ordeal has shown how much latent power there is in casual workers sticking together, which the NTEU hasn't bothered galvinizing
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Solidarity with aged care workers, another highly casualised sector. Potentially banning them from juggling multiple jobs, ignores that they shouldn't have to do so to make a living in the first place.
This is a failing of privitisation and casualisation, not workers ✊✊✊
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So
@NTEUVictoria
have just abandoned the pretense of protecting casuals. Compare the first email from 5 days ago to the one sent today - forgotten by Monash University and our own trade union
#SolidarityInPrecarity
#SaveHigherEdJobs
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Oh Kay - now that we've committed to industrial action we're going to need everyone at Monash (and everywhere else) to update and check on the status of your NTEU membership.
2023
#STRIKEWAVE
here we come.
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Props to the NTEU for pretending to push an Accord purely to galvinize rank and file organising. Genius! For a second we thought our trade union was just selling us out
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25 years of casualisation. 25 years of organising.
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We are encouraging Monash Teaching Associates and former casuals to fill out this anonymous form that continues the collection process for evidence of wage theft from casual staff at Monash University.
Please spread the word, and dive in if this is you.
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"Please note that all staff and students have the right to cross a picket line." - Monash Management Global Email?
You know what else staff have rights to? We'll start:
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"In 2021, casuals at Monash University were startled by management announcing that [PhD Fellowship] positions would be introduced following discussions with the NTEU hierarchy."
Sobering assessment of NTEU leadership and bargaining in
#highereducation
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Excellent! We look forward to continuing our Federal Court case with respect to millions in unpaid wages of casual workers
@MonashUni
See you at work!
I’m excited to commence as
@MonashUni
’s 10th Vice-Chancellor and President today. Monash is an excellent and joyful place to work and study with a rich history and unique global mission. I’m looking forward to continuing my journey at this extraordinary place.
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"culture war" is now banned. "class war" is the only language we speak from now on.
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Striking, everywhere
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We've set up a Twitter list to make it easy to keep up with NTEU rank and file across the country. Check it out:
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Mythbusting: there's no such thing as a "superstar" academic. It's a construct that reproduces class difference within the institution.
Also there’s this really perverse thing that happens in academic hiring: the bar is set at “superstar” level, and the people actually working in the jobs get overlooked. When you’re overloaded with teaching you don’t have time to set yourself up as a star. It’s complete inequity
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Students expressing civil and political communication, and using their newly awarded academic freedoms should be celebrated for opposing genocide, not censored. Shame
@UniMelb
.
Students at the University of Melbourne have been continually silenced. Despite national cultural symbols being accepted this student was kicked out of his own graduation simply for displaying a Palestinian flag.
#NoBloodOnOurDegrees
#StopArmingIsrael
#FreePalestine
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Dunking on unpaid volunteers that support marginalised communities is extremely uncool and doesn't display true union values.
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24hr STRIKE - WARMING UP 2024
Midday Wed 20 March - Midday Thur 21 March !
We're still fighting for better wages and conditions, genuine job security, an end to potential wage theft, and a better
@MonashUni
.
@NTEUVictoria
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So... the VC has responded to us in an all staff email to let us know a further 10% increase to her salary will apply next year too. Just restoring it to pre-pandemic levels tho = $1.7millp.a.
Ok sis. Girlboss, gate-keep, etc.
From the Monash University annual report:
It seems the VC Margaret Gardner is comfortable with an annual pay rise of 12%, perhaps we should expect the same? No? What's that? 3% you say? Ok 🙃
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After eleven years of annual surplus - including nearly 700million during the pandemic - Monash can afford to pay its staff.
Along with secure jobs, we're demanding CPI +1.5% to make sure we're not going backwards
@MonashUni
Come on
@GardmarM
! It's time to invest in your staff
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Look forward to hearing from casual workers
@MonashUni
at a debate on the
@NTEUNational
so called Jobs Protection Framework accord with the Uni. Many casuals have already lost their jobs. Thanks to
@beneltham
and other branch committee for organising this.
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Let's gooooo
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And more importantly join
@AusUnemployment
, whether you're losing work or not. True mass solidarity is the way forward.
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Let's talk about the gendered nature of the
@NTEUNational
framework's attacks on workers. How will single mums cope with a 15% pay cut, or an increased workload because casual coworkers were fired? How will it prevent feminised support services being cut first?
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👋 we're right here
@AlisonBarnes25
“The underlying cause of this is widespread casualisation … which creates a breeding ground for staff to be ripped off & creates huge barriers to them reporting this exploitation”: Branch pres
@beneltham
on another local NTEU win on wage theft
#securejobs
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All
#HigherEd
workers to their universities today.
#SolidarityInPrecarity
#SaveHigherEdJobs
#RUOKDay2020
Credit: Da Kath & Kim Appreciation Society on Facebook
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We call on
@MonashUni
to clarify these comments in today's
@theage
How many casual employees does it currently use?
How many PhD students does it currently have?
Why aren't casual staff deserving of the same conditions as ongoing employees at Monash?
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Every professor in the country should be asking themselves: what was I doing while university education and research was transformed beyond recognition?
Rampant insecurity, unmanageable workloads and wage theft are familiar to anyone who works in higher ed. Enough is enough. Universities must be held to account.
This is why, starting next Monday, NTEU Monash members will be commencing industrial action.
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Important message from students who were attacked and threatened overnight.
Monash Casuals will be there in support today at 2pm
Solidarity & support the student Gaza encampment at Monash University!
As part of what is now an international pattern, he encampment was attacked by 12 Zionist far right thugs whilst police & security did nothing.
Snap rally at Monash 2pm on Lemon Scent Lawns.
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@caitecassidy
Great article, Caitlin. Thanks for representing us in the news - we've been abandoned by our HR departments.
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Let's end casualised work that's not casual.
MASSIVE CONGRATS to Rebecca Abrams and Alice Jolly, who’ve won their landmark case against Oxford for sticking them on over a decade’s worth of sham contracts.
@UniofOxford
, we’re watching: these practices won’t go ignored any more.
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Monash casuals spotted at the Unimelb picket this morning!
@NTEUUniMelb
On the picket line on day five. Solidarity sung, solidarity received from other unionists and locals. Stop casualisation. Pay decent wage rises.
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There are currently 750 PhD graduates working on sessional contracts
@MonashUni
- they want to offer them .3FTE or less for the security of a 4-5 year fixed term contract. What do we think of it?
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