Today we bid farewell a titan of our movement, Warwick Claydon, who for more than 20 years has been a pillar of our Industrial Officer Team. Thank you, Warwick. Your impact will be felt for generations, and your union family wishes you all the very best in retirement! 🌟

🎊Congratulations to members at Curtin University for standing up and taking strike action yesterday for safe workloads, job security and fair pay. The university is nothing without the workforce behind it, staff deserve respect and progress at the bargaining table.

‘A key question, however, is rarely asked: what does ‘‘material interest’’ mean?’ For Sidecar, Dylan Riley on the new Marxism: https://t.co/ZEbz28O4Ah

The Expert Council on University Governance has delivered its recommendations – the depth of the crisis in our universities is clear. Thank you to every member who attended meetings, presented evidence, and stood up for better unis. Read the report: https://t.co/30xBTRKlbn

After more than 17 months of waiting, Dental Technician members around the state received and rejected their first pay Offer from Government to replace the Dental Technicians CSA Industrial Agreement 2022 and have voted to take escalating industrial action. ✊

Workers must organize for power, while capitalists wield it individually through property rights. This deep asymmetry, as German sociologist Claus Offe explained, creates a chain of obstacles that make working-class collective action uniquely difficult. https://t.co/mxzAkH4a8w

Setting the “days since an Australian university admitted wage theft” clock back to 0 https://t.co/JR7AT7FTF6

Our research on Australian’s views on AI - published in the Financial Review. If these charts tells us anything, it’s that AI doesn’t just carry with it the promise of efficiency, but the smell of menace. Across gender, class, and geography, a majority of Australians are

BREAKING NEWS: @ourANU has announced that there will be no forced redundancies. ✊ Union members have fought tirelessly to save these jobs, and every university staff member facing job cuts can take heart from what we have achieved at ANU. https://t.co/uT3f2PrX2E @NTEUnion

Another uni breached for health and safety risks arising from workplace restructuring. The crisis of uni governance runs deep but corporatised uni senior execs remain in denial. ⁦@NTEUnion⁩

Sadly, ANU has been an extreme but not isolated case of appalling university governance. Staff bravely speaking out against mismanagement has led to this. Now we need national reforms to end the governance crisis plaguing our institutions.

In the last two years, ANU leadership has taken an approach of moving fast and breaking things. Unfortunately, too many of those things were people. Very proud of @NTEUnion members at @ourANU. Now to lock in no forced redundancies. ✊

Amazing: Autechre and Lenin in Russia in 1994. Pic by Steve Double.

Never have a seen a major government project with so few friends. Overwhelming the community doesn’t support it. The Greens don’t support it. The Libs don’t support it. And even Federal Labor doesn’t support it. Time to spend the $217 million on something better.

Part two of my Anti-Losurdo looks at his treatment of heterodox currents in Italian, French, and German Marxism, as well as his books on Nietzsche and Stalin. Figures like Tronti, Negri, Sartre, Althusser, Horkheimer, and Adorno are all covered here. https://t.co/7hzSMnL73p

I've finally done a podcast episode about the work Adam Curtis, wherein I describe his films as a kind of 'archive fever dream', and suggest that the left history of Andy Beckett might be the antidote we need. @Matt_Huxley @redandinexpert this is for you. https://t.co/oGjOke6mxY

.. thinking about universities through the lens of the balance sheet has left those in charge unable to advocate for the institutions they oversee, the staff who work there, and the students they educate

. @MattBruenig hits it on the head here. The welfare state is not equivalent to development econ, which focuses on intervention and human capital effects. Welfare states, particularly in the Nordics, are rather built on principles of egalitarianism, solidarity and autonomy.

Is this what the AI era is going to be like? A big four consultancy (Deloitte) does a major report for govt then says "oh we just got the names, dates and publishers" of many of the works cited WRONG. No biggie. https://t.co/RF516QY0uy

‘Some staff felt physically ill and others left work early after learning of the course suspensions, said Dr Sarah Attfield’ UTS NTEU branch president describing the ‘culture of fear’ as staff yet again face job and course cuts.