Dear colleague,

NTEU files complaints regarding discrimination in Faculty of Science

Earlier this year, the Faculty of Science converted one insecurely employed staff member, but not the women of colour working in the same team with identical insecure employment contracts and many years of experience.

ABC News reported on this story on Friday

The NTEU UniMelb branch believes this action is discrimination. We are filing complaints against the University of Melbourne for indirect racial and gender discrimination with the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission.

Rally to save our tutors

We are once again calling on staff and students to join us this Wednesday 4 September at 1pm outside Old Geology North to demand the University provide all nine staff with secure, ongoing contracts.

Uni report: ‘Maths and Stats is very heavily weighted towards men at all levels’

According to the University’s own internal report (link doc), the Faculty of Science’s School of Mathematics and Statistics has a poor record on diversity. We know the University can begin to address this problem by converting all nine of the fixed-term tutors in the School who are set to lose their jobs at the end of the year, just as they converted the other staff member in their cohort earlier this year.

Stop letting racism and sexism be the status quo in STEM

Union delegates in Maths and Stats have raised this issue with their Head of School, Howard Bondell, and the Dean, Moira O’Bryan, with no resolution. Although Dean O’Bryan chairs the University’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Sub-Committee, it appears to the Union she sees no problem with women of colour being treated differently to their colleagues. It also appears that she shows no appetite to actually use her authority to address the issue in her own Faculty.

NTEU calls on DVC Pip Nicholson to save these women’s jobs in STEM now

Absent Dean O’Bryan’s leadership, DVC People and Culture Pip Nicholson should step in and address these concerns. As she said herself in the last uniwide town hall, our University has a history of racism that runs back to its founding. We believe it’s time for senior leaders at the University of Melbourne to walk the walk on systemic discrimination against staff.

In solidarity,

David Gonzalez

Branch President

NTEU University of Melbourne

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