Dear colleague,

The NTEU's third periodic report into university wage theft, released yesterday, makes for sickening reading.

Wage theft at our public universities is now on track to exceed $382 million.

This appalling figure shows the contempt highly paid vice-chancellors and their senior executives show towards staff.

Union members banding together have recovered millions of dollars in backpay. In fact, the total amount recovered or in the process of being repaid is now more than $200 million nationally.

However, we will not stop fighting this battle until the root causes are addressed.

Wage theft is a symptom of two key problems in higher education – the level of insecure work and a broken governance model that allows unaccountable university managers to put their own eye-watering salaries ahead of paying staff what they are owed.

Today, the NTEU is calling for an urgent federal parliamentary inquiry into university wage theft.

I’m encouraging everyone to download and share our research with your colleagues.

DOWNLOAD THE REPORT HERE

Please join our fight to end university wage theft through creating better, fairer and more accountable universities.

Yours sincerely,

Alison Barnes
National President

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