With their enterprise agreement expired, staff are in a stand-off with the university about unpaid work in a bid to force management to the bargaining table.
RMIT does not want to negotiate its next EBA with staff until next year, even though the current one has expired.Some of those bans are timed to coincide with next month’s open days.Advertisement
Staff at RMIT plan to boycott open-day events in an effort to force the university to the bargaining table.National Tertiary Education Union members at RMIT voted to reject unpaid or volunteer work for 11 days between August 5 and 15. The action was expected to disrupt planned open-day events at RMIT’s campuses, which will be held on Sundays this year.
The university, which said it would not start to bargain until next year, responded through its lawyers on Tuesday, accusing the union of “organising unprotected industrial action”. Although the union ditched the planned work bans next month, its Victorian division assistant secretary, Sarah Roberts, maintained the university’s move to shut down staff action was disproportionate.
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