Vic Uni staff vote to take industrial action
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The union says students will face the worst student-teacher ratios in the country. (AFP Photo, file photo: Mychele Daniau)
Victoria University staff have voted to take protected industrial action following the largest round of redundancies in Australian university history.
National Tertiary Education Union Victorian secretary Matthew McGowan says over 98 per cent of union members voted in favour of striking.
The industrial action ballot authorises legal, protected industrial action, including work bans bans on the transmission of student examination results, over-time bans and strike action.
The decision to slash about 250 jobs across the university's 11 campuses was made last month.
Mr McGowan says if the job cuts go through and the university refuses to negotiate a collective agreement students at the university will be facing the worst student-teacher ratios in the country.
The union will decide over the next few days what form of action will be taken and when.
- AAP
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