Dear VE Teachers NTEU VE Teachers [1]voted to STRIKE from THURSDAY 25th JULY until WEDNESDAY 7th AUGUST. [2]This is the longest strike action ever undertaken at RMIT. Only NTEU members can participate. We don’t take this action lightly. We do it because we want a decent pay rise, safe workloads, and better working conditions. This strike is for All VE teachers -- including associate degree members who are covered under this agreement. We do it because after VE teachers voted down ...Continue Reading

Dear Vocational Education Teachers, Have you voted yet? You will have recently received a ballot to vote on an enterprise agreement put forward by RMIT VE management. All RMIT VE teachers received this and like all Australian elections, your vote is confidential. The NTEU says : VOTE NO to this agreement. RMIT VE management are offering you: * LONGER WORKING HOURS (7am-7pm) * LOWER WAGES THAN CPI AND SECTOR (9 % increase over 3 years- really 2.3% since end of last agreement ...Continue Reading

Dear VE Teachers, We deserve a better deal. Ballot Open. Vote NO. One of your colleagues says: Morning all, I have just voted I just wanted to send you all a message about the importance of defending workers rights and conditions. I was trying to explain to my English family about Labour day on Monday 11th. It struck me the idea of how hard those workers fought for the 8 hour day and how important the statue on the corner of Russell and Victoria is. It is part of RMIT and Melbourne and ...Continue Reading

Dear Vocational Education Teachers, With inadequate pay and diminished conditions, RMIT management’s proposed enterprise agreement for VE teachers at RMIT asks for more but delivers less. Our industrial experts have sifted through the details, and crunched the numbers, and their analysis shows the proposal falls well short of what you deserve and expect. It’ll keep you behind your other colleagues at RMIT and behind other workers in Australia. The proposed agreement also falls well short of ...Continue Reading

Dear Vocational Education Teachers, RMIT Management are asking you to vote on their enterprise agreement that is well below wages and conditions and what you deserve. RMIT Management wants you to accept (for the next three years): * Lower wages than cost of living (9 % increase over 3 years- really 2.3% since end of last agreement) * increased workloads of up to 21 hours a week all teachers, every week; * increase in your span of hours: 7am to 7pm; * 13.5% superannuati ...Continue Reading

RMIT VE Teachers are invited to lunch on Tueday, 5 March at 12.00pm. Venue: infront of the entrence of Building-56&57, RMIT City Campus. Members and non-members are welcome. Kind Regards, NTEU- RMIT Branch ...Continue Reading

Dear Vocational Education Casual Staff Colleagues, We are writing to you as current or former casual employees of RMIT. Casual work at RMIT is precarious, underpaid, insecure and totally unseen/ignored by RMIT management. Casual work is like a piece of elastic- it expands, and contracts and the amount of work is never recognised by RMIT in your pay rates. It has been almost two years since the RMIT vocational education agreement expired- and casuals wages and conditions have stagnated again ...Continue Reading