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Australian university union celebrates “voluntary” job losses as “resounding success”
University of Queensland (Source: University of Queensland website) Amid an ongoing government-management offensive, exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs across Australia s public universities and accelerate the pro-corporate restructuring of higher education, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) reported in the July edition of its
Advocate magazine:
“NTEU members at the University of Queensland (UQ) Architecture have successfully fought a proposal from Management to disestablish their positions and make them apply for their own jobs a process called a spill ‘n’ fill.
“The ‘Save UQ Architecture’ Campaign declared victory in April, forcing Management to rethink their proposal. Victory came after a brilliant, six-month campaign involving NTEU Members, other staff from the UQ Architecture School, the wider university, and the communi
University of Queensland staff call for end to spill and fill of academic positions
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University of Queensland School of Architecture staff are urgently calling for alternatives to spill and fill
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University of Queensland staff are calling on the university to halt its spill and fill of positions as they fight anticipated job losses in the School of Architecture.
Key points:
UQ School of Architecture staff are fighting the disestablishment of 20 positions
Academics are concerned there is no guarantee all staff would be employed under spill and fill
Consultation and feedback was sought from a range of stakeholders over many years, UQ says