NTEU Monash Branch

18/06/2026

"The sense of hurt and confusion among staff is palpable. These wounds can’t be healed overnight, and Deakin management now has a serious challenge in front of it to rebuild trust. The NTEU stands ready to help them with that." –NTEU Deakin Branch President Professor Reece Walters

The National Tertiary Education Union has saved more than 140 jobs at Deakin University after successfully pressuring management to scrap its damaging plan.

18/06/2026

Big news out of Burnet Institute! Staff have come together and launched NTEU by talking to colleagues, growing membership, and building a strong union from the ground up.

NTEU isn't just a union for university staff. We represent workers across independent medical research institutes because everyone deserves secure jobs, fair pay and a say in the decisions that affect their work.

17/06/2026

Monash University has failed to back-pay thousands of casual academics owed more than $10 million, almost a year after a landmark Federal Court ruling found the university had broken workplace law.

NTEU Monash Branch President Dr Ben Eltham said the same casual academics who had their wages stolen are now being shown contempt by management.

“These academics are on the verge of attending the worst first birthday party of all time,” he said.

“Monash students lose marks for every day their assignments are overdue, but when the University fails to pay back its teachers, nothing happens.

NTEU Victorian Division Secretary Sarah Roberts said the behaviour was consistent with a pattern of disregard for staff.

"The Vice-Chancellor takes home more than a million dollars a year. Finding the resources and the will to pay back workers who were systematically underpaid should not be this hard,” she said.

NTEU National President Dr Alison Barnes said a refusal to take wage theft seriously was a hallmark of the national university governance crisis.

“This is what happens when vice-chancellors and senior executives operate without consequences under a broken governance model. We’ve seen $300 million in wage theft across the sector, but who has lost their job or faced any disciplinary action?”

12/06/2026

We stand with our comrades at NTEU Deakin University Branch and encourage you to sign and share their petition:

Open letter from Deakin University staff On the restructure, the resignation, and the obligation to do better On 4 June, affected Deakin staff across two divisions of the University – Academic Portfolio, and Infrastructure and Digital – were presented with proposals for workplace restructures im...

11/06/2026

Students, staff and alumni have launched an open letter calling on the Faculty of IT to restore funding for small-group teaching and tutorial support.

The letter raises concerns about the impact of recent changes on student learning, teaching quality and staff workloads.

If you support quality teaching and learning in the Faculty of IT, consider adding your name to the letter.

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26/05/2026

Our branch helped to inspire this and we're excited to see the outcome at the report launch tomorrow!

Thousands of university staff across the country took part in our National Class Sizes Survey.

The results are in.

Don’t miss out on our launch TOMORROW - Wed 27 May, 2pm (AEST).

We’ll share the report and walkthrough the findings and next steps in our campaign for fully funded universities.

21/05/2026

Monash would like our feedback on parking and transport (survey link via the QR code). Staff will see this pop-up on the portal and we encourage members to take the time to share their insights. We can't be sure what will come of this, but it is good to let the university know how we really feel, and hopefully we don't have to submit an FOI to find out the outcome of this survey!