Two Years. Literally millions spent on legal fees. Multiple strikes. A terminated Enterprise Agreement. Law suits targeting not just the Union but individuals. The reputation of an institution in tatters. A staff exodus. Employee morale at the lowest possible ebb. These are the costs for Murdoch University of this round of enterprise bargaining. More...

After months of bargaining at UNSW, on 30 May NTEU members walked off the job for 24-hours, striking at campuses in Kensington, Darlinghurst and UNSW Canberra. More...

A pay increase of 1.8% per year (8.5% flat over the life of the Agreement) was boosted by a restructuring of the classifications which will see the overwhelming majority of staff receive additional increases of between 1% and 2.4% salary through increment changes. More...

The release of the 2018-19 Federal Budget saw a small but welcome budget increase to the supplementary funding allocation and forward estimates attributed to the Indigenous Student Assistance Grants (ISAG) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Support; administered through the Indigenous Student Success Program (ISSP). More...

October 1st this year marks 25 years since the formation of NTEU. It also marks a quarter of a century since I was given the privilege of being NTEU General Secretary, having spent the previous 10 years as General Secretary of the Union of Australia College Academics (UACA). More...

For my final Advocate editorial*, I could have written on the need to change the industrial laws in favour of workers and our unions; to organise more effectively to increase job security; to counter the persistence of sexism and inequality for women; to again make the case for free tertiary tuition and adequate public funding; to plea for members to get involved in university governance and demand democracy and accountability; and I certainly could have written on academic freedom and our rights and responsibilities to challenge the status quo through our teaching, research and engagement. More...

As thousands of unionists marched to Change the Rules this May, staff at the University of Melbourne walked off the job in one of the most successful strikes at the University in recent memory. More...

Agreements at the University of Queensland (UQ), University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), and Charles Darwin University (CDU) are close to settlement and NTEU recently reached agreement with the Australian Catholic University (ACU) and University of Tasmania (UTAS). More...

Based on data obtained from the Department of Education and Training under a Freedom of Information request, the ABC today published a story by Dan Conifer entitled University funding freeze hits regional campuses worst, which shows how much the Department expects each university’s funding to be reduced as a consequence of the funding freeze announced by Senator Birmingham in December 2018. More...

The segment examined the relationship between universities and private donations and the issues of autonomy, governance, democracy, philanthropy and transparency which must be considered. More...