Summary of claims

Union members at UQ voted overwhelmingly for an ambitious log of claims on July 13 2021. These are improvements we want to see in our Enterprise Agreement (EA) in the current round of enterprise bargaining.

We've been bargaining for over a year now and management are dragging their heels. Despite inflation and other cost of living increases biting for all workers, management has offered NO proposals or concessions in bargaining to address this.

It is becoming increasingly urgent that we reach an agreement that determines our workplace conditions for the next three years. This is the only time that we can fight for real improvements in pay and conditions for all staff: permanent, contract and casual, academic and professional.

Highlights of our log of claims (available in full here) include:

• No forced redundancies for the life of the agreement
• A pay rise of 15% for all staff, or CPI plus 1.5%, whichever is higher, by the end of 2024
• More stages in consultation on restructures, and a minimum 30-day consultation period for change proposals
• Workload Review Committees with 50% union representation to investigate professional staff workloads
• Equality measures for casuals including paid sick leave, increments, equal access to facilities and meetings, and 17% super like other staff;
• An enforceable right to conversion for casual staff
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment target of 3.6% of headcount by the end of 2024
• Recordings of teaching content only to be used with the consent of staff

It will be tough to win these claims. No major gains in working conditions have been won without workers taking industrial action - so it's important to organise now and use this opportunity to improve our pay and conditions. As well as the full log of claims linked above, specific fact sheets on various aspects of our campaign can be found below.

Fact sheets (click for PDFs):

Safer Workplaces and Better Protection for Professional Staff

UQ Casuals deserve fair pay and equity

Defending Workers' Intellectual Property

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Equity

UQ Casuals' Caucus report on wage theft - September 2021