NTEU News 30 April 2012 The Australian 1 May 2012 The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has welcomed Vice Chancellor Ian Young’s decision to abandon his so-called ‘re-positioning’ strategy for the Australian National University (ANU), that would have seen up to 150 jobs lost and the imposition of retrospective performance standards. The apparent back-down was communicated in an e-mail from the Vice Chancellor to ANU staff on 30 April. The timeline will be two years instead of the six months originally proposed. But nothing in Young's email to staff suggests a reversal of the decision to target discipline areas. It is also unclear if redundancies will still be … [Read more...]
