John Dewar La Trobe University You proud of all the wage theft, staff cuts and course cuts, aye John? What about that time COVID lockdowns hit and one of the first things you did was to unemploy all casual staff without any safety net? x.com/LTUcasuals/sta…

La Trobe University Casuals Network La Trobe University John Dewar Don't forget his role in gutting the La Trobe Student Union

This is quite insane

Beers/ picnic in Edinburgh Gardens, Fitzroy this Saturday from 1pm for all NTEU Monash Casuals Network members (and other Branches too). Partners, pets, comrades, babies - all are welcome. BYO drinks and snacks (sorry), but the weather is looking good. 🌞

Out 2020 survey of casual staff at La Trobe drew testimony from casuals across the university about the expectation that we will attend necessary work area/dept. meetings and catch up meetings without pay. We will continue to make noise about it until our attendance is paid!

"Charmaine Katuwapitiyage started casual teaching in Bioscience at @LaTrobe University last year and alleges she has been underpaid. “For me, I’ve always done the work properly. I keep the actual hours it takes, and they never pay me for that,” she said." #wagetheft

Wage theft & casualisation are systemic problems, having cost the sector upwards of $100mill. Yet the most egregious impact is the human cost - debt, the inability to plan for your future, the disconnect between perception and reality of an academic career, the lack of dignity.

Low pay with worse conditions make Deakin's deal a dud. Vote No then we return to bargaining and NTEU can get staff a better deal, like the ones we've won at other #universities. VOTE NO - it's all you have to do, then we can do the rest: qrco.de/bdtHQh #betterunis

Another day, another multimillion dollar wage theft settlement. Amazing victory by the LTU casuals network and NTEU La Trobe Branch. When we fight, we win.

Sound familiar, University of Sydney casuals? Let's get ready to take the fight to management this year. We'll be demanding pay for the hours we actually work for marking (and more) 💪💪💪