The sign I made for this week's strike. Double sided and complete with details and sources in footnotes. (Painted on a recycled Greens coreflute we had out the front of our unit at the last state election.)

#UniMelb #UniMelbStrikes #NTEU #union #strike #WageTheft #universities

The Age, one of Melbourne's biggest news sites, has reported on this week's strike at #UniMelb, quoting some awesome folks:

“The University of Melbourne is a hugely rich institution with crushing workloads, wage theft and insecure work and yet in so many respects it wants to maintain the status quo,” [acting NTEU branch president Chloe Mackenzie] said.

R. Grace & N. Precel, "Hundreds of tutorials cancelled as University of Melbourne staff strike."
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/hundreds-of-tutorials-cancelled-as-university-of-melbourne-staff-strike-20231003-p5e9fl.html

#NTEU #UniMelbStrikes

It was a pity that the beautiful sunny weather of day one of our week-long strike at the University of Melbourne didn't continue into day two... but as we chanted this morning: "we will hold the picket line - rain, hail, or shine!"

And that we did! Surrounded by a solid turnout of amazing union members, it was an awesome day regardless of the non-stop rain. 😄✊💜

#UniMelb #UniMelbStrikes #NTEU #strike #picket #Melbourne

(Images are selfies taken each day.)

Jeff Sparrow with a run down of how the University sector got here and why we needed to #strike. #unimelbstrikes

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/25/how-did-australias-university-system-get-so-broken-pretty-much-the-same-way-as-everything-else?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Solidarity for the win.

Not just another manic Monday

Mon 28th August 2023

#NTEU
#Strike
#unimelbstrikes

Note Thanks
[email protected]
Em Johnson (she/her)
@missemilielib
So many came in person to attend May 3rd #nteu meeting at Trades Hall in Melbourne that it decided to vote outside at the #888 - 8 hour day - monument - in order to allow everyone (who attended but couldn't get into the Hall) a voice.
#union

Our strike action today has been written up in The Age! And our awesome library workers banner became the feature image of the article!

"Staff at five universities strike in fight to end reliance on casual labour."
By Adam Carey and Nicole Precel.
May 3, 2023. The Age.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/staff-at-five-universities-strike-in-fight-to-end-reliance-on-casual-labour-20230503-p5d555.html

#NTEU #BetterUnisNWA #UniMelbStrikes