They manage to get million-dollar Martin’s pay check right each week? Just not the people doing the core work of the university.

Quite right. And it's important we keep the pressure on Jason Clare MP to ensure our #universities adopt governance measures recommended in the University Accord. Read more and sign our petition: betterunis.com
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So strange, right? It’s like it’s by design or something. 🤔

Deakin University Fair Work Ombudsman Deakin UniversityNTEU And here's former casual academic Victoria on how #WageTheft Deakin University led her to the heartbreaking decision to walk away from Academia.
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It took two years of pressure from NTEU members for the uni to admit underpayment:
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And... another Australian university admits to having underpaid their academics. Wage theft is the very business model! The cases so far focus on sessional staff though. What about the excess work forced upon full time academics? This is wage theft too!

Wage theft is baked into the operating model of universities. It’s systemic. It’s deliberate. They bank on it.

After two years pushing to get #WageTheft Deakin University exposed, casual academic Dylan and his colleagues are vindicated as the university finally admits the 'error' to Fair Work Ombudsman: theage.com.au/national/victo…
Now they must get paid! Here's Dylan:
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Our members ground out this victory, as did our IR team. One day longer, one day stronger.

Wage justice has a long way to go, with faithfully applying Agreements, pillars of the Accords process. But with wins like this, we’re one step closer.

We’re all Union proud today.

Huge stuff. The Deakin campaign inspired similar disputes at Curtin. We’ve been waiting over a year for any meaningful update on Curtin’s audit into ten years of potential underpayments. It’s a slow grind but we’ll get there like NTEU Deakin Branch

This is the result of a determined effort from NTEU Victoria members to end #wagetheft in #HigherEducation
Fair Work Ombudsman said they would come after recalcitrant Uni managements if they didn’t confess. Read the whole thread

Getting paid for hours worked should be a no-brainer. NTEU is seeking to ensure that staff have a right to be fairly remunerated if required to respond to student emails outside of working hours. Join us today: nteu.org.au/join

How can RMIT University break ties with Israeli weapons manufacturers? Find out next Tuesday in the latest NTEU #Palestine Forum Series, with Nasser Mashni, President of APAN, and Nick Riemer, Uni of Sydney.
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