The CPSU NSW has outlined key elements of the Union’s bargaining platform at UNSW including job security, competitive pay and flexible work arrangements, in a bargaining meeting with management and union representatives on Wednesday, 30 March.
After several turbulent years, relentless restructuring and higher levels of insecure work, the CPSU NSW has identified job security and organisational stability as the Union’s highest priorities.
While the CPSU NSW is yet to present a full suite of claims, having a requested a financial briefing from UNSW before finalising our position, our bargaining team has advised the University that job security is at the core of our agenda as bargaining for a new enterprise agreement gets underway in earnest.
The CPSU NSW is also equally mindful that cost of living and inflation are likely to put significant pressure on household budgets and suggested that the next enterprise agreement needs to be crafted with this in mind.
For its part, UNSW is seeking “greater flexibility” and has flagged a desire to remove some existing provisions from the enterprise agreement and into organisational policy. However, the University is yet to provide the unions with detail of its claims.
In other developments, the unions have jointly sought greater practical support from the University to assist with bargaining including time release arrangements for staff bargaining representatives. UNSW has said it would consider the unions submissions but is yet to commit to anything of substance.
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