Deakin Students In Solidarity

Deakin students coming together to show and lobby support for our invaluable Deakin staff who are facing unnecessary job cuts. We are NOT affiliated with DUSA.

[Deakin Students In Solidarity @DSinSolidarity]

Today was a horrendous, infuriating and heart breaking day for our Deakin staff. Indirectly, we students are also negatively impacted as we lost numerous staff both involuntarily AND voluntarily while any remaining morale was surely destroyed.

[Deakin Students In Solidarity @DSinSolidarity]

Slight change of plan - we'll be able to post about it tomorrow!

[Deakin Students In Solidarity @DSinSolidarity]

Keep an eye on our account for later tonight where we'll be sharing details on how you can act even more in solidarity with our staff who go to great lengths themselves to support us during our time at university ✊️ (3/3)

[Deakin Students In Solidarity @DSinSolidarity]

Keep an eye on our account for later tonight where we'll be sharing details on how you can act even more in solidarity with our staff who go to great lengths themselves to support us during our time at university ✊️ (3/3)

[Deakin Students In Solidarity @DSinSolidarity]

Casual staff (your Lecturers/Tutors) are still fighting against Deakin University on experiencing wage theft - like other Australian universities have been found to as well: https://t.co/nNNUGjlti1 (1/3)

[Ben Eltham @beneltham]

You’ll be astonished to learn that another university has admitted to millions of dollars of wage theft https://t.co/pmXt39TLkw

[Deakin Students In Solidarity @DSinSolidarity]

Do you both think Deakin should take the wellbeing of our staff and students seriously and want to help show your support towards our casual staff? We finally have a way you can act practically that is more than just commenting on posts on social media. (2/3)

[Demyan Laak @DamienSverdlov]

Look..the message is pretty simple...they pretend to pay you .. therefore...you need to pretend to work...the essays are not important...the lectures are pointless...the world is going to hell very quickly... hasten it along

[Deakin Students In Solidarity @DSinSolidarity]

This should be INFURIATING you to know @Deakin staff are still being treated like this *2.5 YEARS LATER*

[Deakin Students In Solidarity @DSinSolidarity]

We sincerely thank @deakincasuals for sharing such detail of how it really is for something like marking our assignments which is rarely brought to our attention.

We'd esp like to highlight this part: "When casual staff are not paid for the work they perform, students suffer"

[Deakin Uni Casuals in Solidarity @deakincasuals]

Tutors’ pay conditions are student learning conditions. Deakin staff are given 22 minutes to mark a 1500 word essay (impossible). For each seminar, two hours of prep time are afforded (can you read a novel in two hours?). They are not paid to answer emails, or offer consultations

[Deakin Students In Solidarity @DSinSolidarity]

If you too have questions and concerns about how your education is being affected by Deakin's wage theft, please get involved and make some noise! Sharing this with others is an amazing start ✊️ (5/5)

[Deakin Students In Solidarity @DSinSolidarity]

ALLEGATIONS OF *WAGE THEFT* BY DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Are you aware about the recent allegations that @Deakin University are committing wage theft against our casual staff ie. your Lecturers and Tutors? (1/5)

[Deakin Students In Solidarity @DSinSolidarity]

As paying students at Deakin, we have every right to transparency about how our money is being used, and how the staff in charge of our education are being treated. (4/5)

[Deakin Uni Casuals in Solidarity @deakincasuals]

Out in the world, demanding better. Join your union!

[Deakin Students In Solidarity @DSinSolidarity]

FYI fellow Deakin students
This is how casuals, who you are most likely taught by, are currently being treated by Deakin University. It's appalling that even beyond the worst of the pandemic, the uni still manages to treat them like this 😤

[Deakin Uni Casuals in Solidarity @deakincasuals]

End of week one and casuals are being told that they won’t be paid for their work this pay cycle because contracts have not yet been sorted out. @Deakin should be ashamed.

[maree pardy 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @mareeep]

Just read Dean's email about exciting times ahead, & thanks and farewell to specific staff sacrificed. So upsetting to think about the loss of such amazing colleagues & now preoccupied wondering how they are all faring. I was OK today, but not so now after that email - hits hard

[Ben Eltham @beneltham]

It’s 3 weeks into January and already I’ve got members at my university being made redundant and casual teachers being let go. From a university running a $250m surplus. Higher education in this country is in such a dark place.

[Deakin Students In Solidarity @DSinSolidarity]

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[Hon. Scott Morrison AC @ScoMo30]

We’re backing Australia’s best minds in our universities and industry to work together to create new products & technologies that will help secure our economic recovery from COVID, with a $242.7m investment in our new Trailblazers Universities initiative. https://t.co/HHr5EpNpMt

[Phil Orchard (philorchard.bsky.social) @p_orchard]

This is so disingenuous. 2 years of gutting the university sector -no jobkeeper support, 40,000 lost jobs- now the government offers this pittance of support to 4 universities. And new technology emerges through pure research, not commercialisation.

[Tanya Plibersek @tanya_plibersek]

Education minister talking about how important higher education is: “third biggest export industry”. Why did he stand by while universities lost 40,000 staff including 7,000 researchers then? #qt #auspol