Over fifty Swinburne staff members attended a fundraising morning tea for the victims of the Haiti earthquake disaster, including the Vice Chancellor. Over $1000 was raised at the morning tea, which will be donated to APHEDA Union Aid Abroad – the Australian union movement’s overseas aid organisation.

The morning tea was a project of the NTEU’s Union Summer intern – who helped organise the event. Union Summer is a program run by the Victorian Trades Hall Council and the Young Unionists Network, and interns young unionists with a union for three weeks. Intern Robin Casselmalm helped the NTEU organisers and staff with the fundraiser and is pictured on the far left above.

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Swinburne NTEU APHEDA Fundraiser for victims of the Haiti earthquake

The NTEU and APHEDA are holding a free morning tea to raise funds to help aid the recovery of the Haiti people. Free morning tea provided.

Please join us for morning tea and help raise money for this important cause.

Where: Staff Room, Level 11, BA Building

Time: 10 – 11 am

Date: Wednesday 10 February

Cost: Donations welcome

Enquiries: Ann Healey, NTEU Swinburne, Branch Organiser 9214 8162 or swinburne@nteu.org.au

ALL STAFF WELCOME

Note: Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA – was established in 1984 to the ACTU as a means for Australian workers, through their unions, to directly assist international development by supporting projects for workers in developing countries. APHEDA website: www.apheda.org.au.

What’s on the bargaining table?

The University of Melbourne is now offering a nominal 16 per cent salary increase, 2 per cent of which was paid as an ‘administrative increase’ in April 2009 and another 2 per cent of which will be back-dated to 2009 if we come to an agreement relatively quickly. ‘Nominal’ means adding the point-by-point percentage salary increases over the life of an agreement without taking account of percentage compounding.

In November 2009 the National Tertiary Education Union reduced its claim to 18 per cent (including the 2 per cent already paid). The NTEU also endorses an additional 2 per cent being back-paid.

This paper updates an earlier version that preceded the University’s most recent offer. It repeats some of that paper but recalculates the data tables to show the relative effects of the 16 per cent offer and the 2 per cent back-dating.

It concludes that the University’s offer is inadequate.

Download the updated document here (pdf).