The University of Southern Queensland has proposed major cuts to staff working conditions while walking away from negotiations with the National Tertiary Education Union. Instead of negotiating constructively with union members, UniSQ management has told staff that they will cease negotiating directly with the Union and will seek conciliation. UniSQ claims there has been an "extremely protracted" bargaining process. The NTEU agreed to management's request to delay the start of bargaining from March 2021 and attempted to get the University to start in July 2022 but it took until December 2022 for the University to come to the table.

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