Better Workplaces
Better UoN
Being an NTEU member means standing together with your colleagues to defend and improve our rights at work. One of the ways we do this through our bargaining campaign.
NTEU members have endorsed the following priorities for our bargaining campaign, known as our ‘Log of Claims’. NTEU reps present these claims to UoN management and negotiate on behalf of all UoN staff.
We are calling for secure jobs, workload relief and fair pay. Can you join us?
You can download our Log of Claims here.
What’s in our Log of Claims?
Coverage
There will be a single enterprise agreement covering all University of Newcastle staff.
Salary Increases
Salary IncreasesA salary increase for all staff of 20% (flat).
Expiry Date
Expiry DateContingent upon reaching agreement within 9 months of expiry of the current agreement, an expiry date of 1 September 2029.
Safe Workloads
Safe Workloads
The Agreement will protect professional and academic staff from excessive and unpaid work by:
4.1 Ensuring professional and academic staff vacancies are filled within three (3) months;
4.2 Requiring that Academic Work Allocation Models be developed and reviewed in collaboration with staff of the College or School, and approved by a majority of staff in a work unit; and
4.3 Ensuring individual academic workloads provide opportunities to conduct research and undertake leadership roles, and that they cannot be varied without mutual agreement.
Job Security
5.1 The Agreement will strengthen pathways for fixed-term and casual staff to be converted to secure employment.
5.2 The Agreement will provide for strengthened job security rights, including:
a) Improved consultation clauses;
b) Redundancy as a last resort; and
c) That no individual be subject to an organisational change process more than once during the life of the Agreement.
Casual Equity
Casual EquityCasual employees will be paid 17% superannuation to match the superannuation contribution for non-casual employees.
Union Rights
Union RightsThe Agreement will provide improved union and delegates’ rights, including time release for union branch officials and delegates to perform their duties, access to staff email lists, access to staff inductions, and access to at least 10 days of trade union training leave per member each year.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Staff
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander StaffThe Agreement will strengthen UON’s commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff.
Compliance Uplift
Compliance UpliftThat the parties audit the Agreement to ensure it is compliant with legislative changes, and exceeds conditions provided in relevant Awards and the NES.
A right to make further claims.
A right to make further claims.A right to make further claims.