This follows last year’s findings by Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) that the gender pay gap for full time professional staff across the Education and Training sector was 10%, and at 13% for senior management levels. However, the WGEA data is not higher education specific, and any remuneration data reported by universities is not publicly available. More work is therefore needed. More...
Over the past two enterprise bargaining rounds, NTEU has sought, successfully in many universities, to have clauses included to provide assistance and support to those dealing with domestic violence. In negotiating these clauses we hoped we were on the right track in achieving the desired outcomes of supporting staff to keep their jobs and better manage their situation. More...
The legislation will be based on Safe and Strong, Victoria’s first Gender Equality Strategy. There are equal opportunity and other anti-discrimination laws in place in Victoria, but this work is being hailed as the first strategic look at obtaining equality for women. The caucus framed priorities for working women around the key priority areas of Trades Hall’s Our Feminist Agenda: Gendered violence, gender pay inequality, intersection and transitions between caring and work, and insecure and precarious work. More...
In 2016, Universities Australia (UA) asked the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) to conduct a national independent survey into sexual harassment and assault in Australian universities as part of UA’s Respect. Now. campaign. More...
The second NTEU State of the Uni survey was conducted in May/June 2017. In this the second Advocate report on the survey results, we cover respondents’ views on working conditions, job satisfaction and voting intentions. More...
Happy birthday to us; we’ve turned 60! Australian Universities’ Review (AUR) has been around since 1958 under one name or another. This makes it the longest-lived higher education journal in the country: an achievement to be proud of. More...
Academic freedom is the cornerstone of a robust and healthy university system. Only fully democratic universities can pursue their missions of free and open enquiry and passionate social debate. Negate academic freedom and you effectively kill the university; and this, in turn, collapses one of the central pillars of a robust democratic society. More...
Union members led 8,000 participants at the Melbourne Pride March this year, recognising the mighty contribution union members made to the marriage equality campaign last year. Although a ‘survey’ was never an appropriate way to determine a human rights issue, the LGBTIQ community did what it’s always done: we got on with it, with strength, solidarity and some fun. More...
A Fair Work Commission (FWC) Full Bench has now ruled on various applications by university managements and the NTEU to change the Awards covering academic and general staff in universities. The outcome from the NTEU point of view is very unsatisfactory and reiterates the need to change the (Un)Fair Work Act 2009, but it is also indicative of the conservative and anti-worker positions increasingly taken by the FWC in this environment of antagonism to workers and their unions. More...
Leadership was the theme of the 3rd women’s conference of Education International (EI) held in Marrakesh in January this year. EI President Susan Hopgood explained the conference title, “Through the Labyrinth” in her opening address. Any scan of the data confirms that while there are improvements in some parts the world, women are still under-represented in political, business and even trade union leadership. Without radical interventions, at the current rates it would still take at least a century to achieve gender parity. There is some evidence that quotas help, and targets can also assist. More...
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