12:00pm - Meet outside the UTS Tower building
1:00pm - Meet outside Sydney Town Hall
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While much of the focus on the Kemp document has been on the student fees
issue it is also important to remember that "reforms" are also intended for
staff in the universities. There is a clear threat to break down working
conditions in the universities and to do everything possible to increase
workloads and limit salary increases. Kemp also wants to smash what he sees
as the unbridled power of the NTEU in higher education (if only). In other
words he wants to do an MUA on us. The National Day of Action is as much
about staff as it about students. We need to demonstrate our support for
the students, but we also have to show that we will defend our industrial
and professional integrity. Howard has back-pedaled from Kemp and his
submission but if you trust the PM's words then you also believe that he
has never broken a promise. His and his government's record speaks for itself.
The government has acknowledged that academic staff have a case for higher
salaries and that they are prepared to make available $259m over 3 years,
which it described as "an additional 2% salary supplementation" to
universities. However,the Government is only willing to make the
additional funds available on condition that universities, who are
allegedly the "victims of pattern bargaining", reform their existing
"Neanderthal" industrial relations practices. The Government has so far
refused to give details.
If you have classes/meetings between 12noon and 3pm on 21 October,
rearrange them or provide alternatives.
For the latest, see
www.edunions.labor.net.au:80/nteu/rights/industmemo/imoct99.html
SEE YOU AT THE RALLY
Sue Burgess
President,
UTS Branch of the NTEU
LL.NK
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