Our Bargaining Claims

View the NTEU's Log of Claims submitted to UC Leadership here.

Workloads at UC are at breaking point. Over 200 staff left through mass job cuts, but across both Professional Staff and Academic Staff, those who remain feel that too often, the work has not decreased in line with the staff reductions. We need Professional Staff to have enforceable review mechanisms, and the right to refuse unreasonable work allocations. We also need Academics to have control of their own workload models, which should be agreed with staff through endorsement of those working under them.

Healthy Workloads

Fair Salaries

Better Job Security

A Better Deal for Professional Staff

These are just some of the key issues that NTEU members at UC are standing up for.

If you have questions about specific issues, please email us at uc@nteu.org.au or use the Contact Us form on the Home page.

Professional Staff need to see improvements across the board at UC. We're pushing for real reforms to things like reclassification processes, professional development, career progression, fair allowances, and protections against the detrimental effects of AI. Combined with our claims on salaries and workloads, this is shaping up to be a big round of bargaining for Professional Staff.

Job Security at UC is a huge issue given that we've just had hundreds of jobs cut. Job Security needs to improve by putting more protections around change management and redundancy processes, as well as protecting and extending avenues to greater job security for fixed-term and casual staff. The Assistant Professor Scheme, finally, needs to go - it has both burnt out staff and led to structural issues UC Leadership has blamed for job cuts.

Salaries at UC are not keeping up with the rest of the sector. As UNSW increases its footprint in the ACT, UC runs the very real risk of not being able to retain staff with pay and conditions at both ANU and UNSW much better than UC. In turn, this will increase already problematic workloads. It's time for UC Leadership to value and respect the contributions of UC staff, and to keep up with the rest of the higher education sector.