UON staff strike: Staff march on the chancellery in protest. 23rd October 2025, Newcastle Herald

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UON staff strike: National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members walked off the job for half a day in protest over stalled enterprise bargaining talks and proposed job and course cuts.

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00:00Hey! Alex! Leave our jobs alone!

00:10So, members of the NTU at Newcastle are striking today because we're not getting anywhere in enterprise bargaining.

00:17Our pay and conditions are being lessened, are deteriorating, and we want to maintain those pay and conditions

00:27primarily because staff conditions are student conditions.

00:31So, if staff are not happy, if staff are overworked, if staff feel that their jobs are in peril,

00:37then that reflects, of course, on the student experience and on the research that the community relies upon

00:44for a more prosperous hunter.

00:47We're going to deliver to the Vice-Chancellor genuine feedback on what staff think about

00:54the progress in bargaining and what's going on with the changes in the university

01:00with people losing their jobs and the general restructures.

01:03Where are we running? Now!

01:05First University!

01:06First University!

01:07First University!

01:08I won't go to sit. Yep, fair enough. That's all.

01:09Very nice. There's a lot of people.

01:11Okay.

01:14I won't go to sit.

01:16We're very scary. I'm afraid to stay with you.

01:19We got lucky.

01:37You pull off!

01:39We're at fast.

01:40We're feeling happy COVID-19!

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