PETITION
FAIR WORK AT UTS!
Please go to: http://www.petitiononline.com/r5utseba/petition.html
In mid-June UTS Management produced its full claim for the current round of Academic and General Staff collective bargaining. A week later the Academic and Support Staff NTEU negotiating teams delivered our response.
The UTS claim keeps us in the Howard era. Since 2006 when the union was forced to accept Work Choice provisions, UTS management has had free rein. The result is continued casualisation, massively increased use of fixed-term contracts, and a blow-out in management jobs.
In just two years, 2006-2008, fixed-term staff rose from 14% to 20% of the academic workforce, so that by 2008 continuing academic staff only made up 52% of the FTE academic workforce. At the same time, the number of managers grew, so that by 2008 there were 12 FTE fixed term or continuing staff for every manager; just two years earlier there had been 15 staff for every manager.
To put a stop to this we need every staff member at UTS to sign-up this petition demanding fair work at UTS.
If we don’t put limits on casualisation and fixed term contracts, and on the use of the Senior Staff Agreement, UTS will soon cease to have a viable continuing academic workforce. If we don’t bring the union back into the Agreement, as an equal partner with the University, we will see further erosion of job security at UTS.
Your NTEU bargainers welcome inquiries about the details of our claims, and your suggestions on what should be included. Please contact Branch Organiser, Belinda Viset: nteu@uts.edu.au
