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CUPUW Media Releases
Casual university workers call for sector-wide reforms to tackle underpayment, February 2022
CUPUW recommends parliament reject proposed amendments to the Fair Work Act, February 2021
“Higher ed policy and disability” – Interview with Pan Karanikolas from CUPUW on Thursday Breakfast 3CR Community Radio (00:09:10 omnwards), 18 November 2021
“Casualisation at Australian Universities” – Interview with Giles Fielke from CUPUW on Thursday Breakfast 3CR Community Radio (00:09:10 onwards), 28 October 2021
“How to help the vast uni workforces that managements undercount” – Campus Morning Mail 14 April 2021
“Casual university staff speak on precarious employment before senate committee” – Claire Ollivain for Honi Soit 13 April 2021
“Guardian Live News” Naaman Zhou for The Guardian 13 April 2021
“Casual Wage Theft in the Corporate University” – Ellyse Fenton and Liam Kane for Arena 18 March 2021
“The exploitation of casual workers in the university sector” – Saskia Beudel for Kill Your Darlings 8 February 2021
“Challenging the casualisation of academia” – Ellen Smith for The Saturday Paper 30 January 2021
“Our jobs at universities are precarious and overburdened. The pandemic has made them harder” – The Guardian 20 August 2020
“University underpayment so rampant tutors ‘instructed to do a poor job’ to avoid unpaid hours, former staff say” – Conor Duffy for ABC News 18 August 2020
“University of Melbourne to repay millions to staff after decade-long underpayment practices”, Conor Duffy for ABC News 5 August 2020
“Cashed-up university sector accused of hypocrisy over mass casualisation of workforce, job losses” – Conor Duffy for ABC News 17 July 2020
“’It’s awful for our intellectual life’: universities, Covid-19 and the loss of expertise” – Celina Ribeiro for The Guardian 20 June 2020
Casuals reporting on casualisation
Submission to Senate Inquiry on wage theft by La Trobe Casuals Network, 2021
‘Stealing Time,’ a report on wage theft and underpayment by USyd Casuals Network, 2020
Casualised, Unemployed and Precarious University Workers 