No higher education jobs should be lost. With universities unfairly excluded from the JobKeeper wage subsidy, the government must step up immediately to provide a new funding package. Job security on campuses must be guaranteed, ensuring that all casual staff are also retained.
Across the country, universities are drawing up plans to cut staff and wages. From PhD students to career academics and professional staff, higher education workers will lose their jobs as a direct result of the government’s failure to provide support during the COVID-19 crisis.
Unis are some of the most casualised workplaces in the country. Staff and students are now suffering as a result.
Unis have been starved of adequate public funding for decades. This has led to a reliance on revenue from international student enrolments, which are disappearing.
Significant new investment, including a minimum ten per cent boost to CGS funding, is essential.
In addition to securing jobs through emergency funding, now is the time to make uni & TAFE free for all so we can rebuild as a fair & just society after this crisis.
My full statement on saving higher ed jobs #auspol #covid19 #SaveHigherEdJobs mehreen-faruqi.greensmps.org.au/articles/save-…
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