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The National Tertiary Education Union has warned vice-chancellors to match Sydney University’s 18 per cent pay rise offer or suffer a ‘brain drain’.
It is not clear whether the threat of uni staff getting other jobs—at even higher rates of pay than at present—represents a negotiating tactic or is merely warming up the audience.
The NTEU says that you can’t get good staff to advocate socialism all day unless you’re prepared to pay the big bucks.
Sydney University offered 18 per cent over two years to match whatever planet they think they’re competing for talent with.
But, with other universities failing to match the Sydney offer, academics will protest from tomorrow—and they won’t leave the picket lines until their demands are met, or 4pm, whichever is earlier.
Lecturers are confident they can sustain protracted, gruelling industrial action by getting their doctoral students to do most of it.
Academics will protest from tomorrow—and they won't leave the picket lines until their demands are met, or 4pm, whichever is earlier.
