Students and staff/nteu members protesting against transphobia on campus today at the University of Melbourne #stoptransphobia

UPDATE: the open letter has been sent off. 2721 signatures in less than a week! 170+ University of Melbourne academics (420+ academics internationally), hundreds of NTEU members, students, UMSU, Pride in Action, Janet Rice, and more! Pics c/o Finley Tobin at the UMSU rally

Tomorrow at 9.45am we're appearing at the Senate Economics Committee into Unlawful Underpayment. So is is the @NTEUNational and so are some of the Unis VCs. Tune in here or even head to the Grace Hotel in Sydney with Yaegan Doran if you're keen! aph.gov.au/News_and_Event…

VC Stephen Garton " Casualisation occurs because it is hard to get permanent staff quickly." VC Ian Jacobs "Casuals love the flexibility, that's why so many of them work across multiple unis." I will happily help their difficulty by putting up my hand for a permanent job.

Snap action @unimelb leaders retreat today, Nei til EU UniMelb Branch acting VP Annette Herrera, "The only ZERO tolerance coming from the VC at Melbourne Uni are the number of zeros tolerated in their million dollar salary and mansion.”

"Zero tolerance" for staff who sexually harass clearly doesn't stop @UniMelb from: 1) Continuing to employ them 2) Founding prestigious awards to honour them Applications for the INAUGURAL 2021 Murray-Lopez Award are now open??🤬 #EnoughIsEnough mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/study/scholars…

Turns out that @UniMelb found another $1 million under the mattress in their adjusted surplus numbers out today. Imagine if they would not have authorised bonuses to senior managers, maintained cuts on executive pay.

More of the same for Uni Melbourne staff: there’s already been a”22 per cent reduction in casual labo campusmorningmail.com.au/news/more-of-t…

The University of Melbourne NTEU branch has put out a statement in support of Trans Day of Visibility next week, I encourage colleagues at other branches to do the same #TDOV21

Please RT We need your help again to save the @UniMelb grounds! We've had 1700+ signatures & 1100+ testimonials but UniMelb are pushing ahead with redundancies and outsourcing of Grounds Team. Sign the petition - rally on 14 April (details forthcoming) tinyurl.com/savethegrounds

📣 Attention casual uni workers in Australia: There is a national casuals summit being held this week on zoom! Registration at the link below Casualised, Unemployed & Precarious Uni Workers AU sites.google.com/view/cupuw/sum…

UniMelb Casuals Network presenting about wage theft wins and ongoing UoM underpayment at the CUPUW Summit tomorrow! See ya there!

Listen now as Adriana Zanca from the UniMelb casuals network talks about the importance of being union in STEM on Einstein A Go-Go RRR...rrr.org.au/explore/progra…

Staff and students delivered a petition to the VC of @unimelb today demanding to save the groundskeeping staff facebook.com/nteu.unimelb/p…

There’s an old organising fable about being on a picket line and someone on it says something racist. The lesson is you don’t cross the picket line, you stay but challenge the views of the worker. NTEU Exec seem to think supporting the racists and transphobes is unionism

Disappointing response today from @UniMelb Provost to the staff rejection of the planned outsourcing of University groundskeepers. We don't trust management as far we can kick them. Stop The Cuts UoM Casualised, Unemployed & Precarious Uni Workers AU NTEU Victoria

More fun UoM annual report times: a loophole means they can now report casual data based on a between-semesters pay cycle (when few casuals work) so they’ve used this to readjust 2019 numbers. Means the 72% casualised workforce number goes down to 59% 2019 and 55% 2020 🙃

Great write up from Dr Jenna Price on the worse in situation at universities, and mentions the USyd Casuals Network report being launched today! smh.com.au/national/austr…

The contemporary university: a place where management would rather pay thousands of people millions of dollars to ‘support’ and ‘transform’ Teaching & Learning than address the elephant in the room & just pay the actual teachers a living wage.

🥲🥲🥲 when will we get some clarity @NTEUNational