Support VU Staff and Students

Let the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor know that you support the staff and students at Victoria University.

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On 17 October, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Harman, announced the largest ever mass-redundancy in Australian university history. Over 250 staff at Victoria University will be given forced redundancies, a cut of up to 26 per cent of academic staff. The University’s financial crisis has been manufactured to cut staff at the expense of constructing more buildings.

Read the NTEU fact sheet.

News article: Victorian Education Minister criticises VU redundancies.

News article: Vic Uni financial crisis has been concocted.

By filling out your name and email address and clicking send, you are sending the following email:

Dear Chancellor Vincent and Vice Chancellor Harman,

I am writing because I support the staff and students at Victoria University. I oppose the unnecessary redundancies that were announced by Prof. Harman on 17 October, and the decision of the University Council to back the Vice Chancellor.

I am concerned that these redundancies will have a serious and negative impact on staff and students at Victoria University, and I am concerned that further education opportunities for future students in the Western Suburbs could be damaged as a result. The reasons given for the redundancies are plainly concocted to undertake a capital works program at the expense of loyal staff and students.

I support the campaign being run by the staff and students of Victoria University, and I support the demands made by the staff union, the National Tertiary Education Union.

I call on you to abandon the redundancies and to return to the negotiating table with the NTEU.

Regards

[Your Name]

This email will be sent to VincentF@supremecourt.vic.gov.au (the Chancellor) and Elizabeth.Harman@vu.edu.au (the Vice-Chancellor). If you would like to send your own message, simply cut and paste the email addresses in your own email software.