Staff have called off week 10 classes across all faculties in what the union says is the longest strike action at the university since 1856.
More than 500 tutorials have been called off and thousands of students affected as union members step up industrial action at one of the country’s richest universities just weeks out from exams.
“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,” the union’s Mackenzie said.“Staff are fed up with it and the students are too. What are they paying their fees for after all?”Melbourne University Vice-Chancellor Duncan Maskell.
Sparrow said “corporate suits” had been successful in monetising higher education and raising money from overseas students, “but in terms of delivering educational outcomes, it’s been an absolute train wreck”.
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