The union opposed a procedural motion by a member of the Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee to delay any vote until the union released the agreement’s full details and allowed at least seven days for members to examine and discuss the document.
After already having slashed hundreds of jobs since the onset of the pandemic, Macquarie University has this week notified over 300 professional staff that…
The NTEU’s appeals to management can be explained only by an underlying agreement with the plans being implemented at the behest of the federal government and big business.
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Student-led petition fights lecturer’s sacking at Sydney’s Macquarie University
In just over a week, mathematics students at Sydney’s Macquarie University have already won the support of well over 400 students and colleagues for a petition demanding the reversal of an announced retrenchment of a highly-regarded mathematics lecturer.
Dr Frank Valckenborgh was told he was made redundant on June 18 as a result of a “hunger games”-style process. Academic staff members across the entire university were forced to compete for their own jobs, via a “spill and fill” process, as the management sought to forcibly retrench more than 80 full-time academics.