Union boss made leap from theory to praxis

Just a few weeks off the shop floor, Alison Barnes is settling into her new role as president of the ­National Tertiary Education Union. The shop floor — also known as Macquarie University — had been Barnes’s employer since 2010. She worked there as a full-time senior lecturer in the depart­ment of marketing and management until she left to begin work in her union position. More...