The Age | 12 June 2013
Monash University staff will push ahead with plans to withhold students’ results, prompting university management to withdraw from negotiations over pay and conditions.
The National Tertiary Education Union has notified Monash management that it would implement a series of bans, including processing results, overtime and participation in events such as open days.
The union’s industrial organiser for Monash, Stan Rosenthal, said the university would not discuss pay increases for staff. He said the university had refused to negotiate while there were bans on recording or transmitting students’ results. But he said the ban had not affected negotiations over a new agreement because talks were “going nowhere”. “
It’s been 10 months with no pay offer, no movement on workloads. Our members have had enough.
Bans on processing results had also been implemented at Deakin and Swinburne while staff at RMIT have proceeded with a ban on processing results for students based overseas.
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