By David Carey
CPSU Joint National Secretary
Following the dumping of undergraduate nursing at its city campus, the University of Sydney is ignoring accusations of elitism and pushing ahead with its plans to close its Orange campus rural management faculty.
It is not only will the rural management students who will be transferred to Charles Sturt University (CSU). It is rumored that the entire University of Sydney Orange (USO) campus - comprising over 1,000 internal and distance students, 35 academics and 58 general staff - would be transferred to CSU.
David Carey, Federal Secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union which represents general staff, said the Union was concerned that union members at Sydney's Orange campus would lose pay and conditions if transferred to CSU.
Sydney University Staff at Orange have better conditions and pay. They have no guarantees from Sydney University or CSU that these conditions will be maintained at Charles Sturt University.
In addition, if the proposal to transfer nursing away from Sydney to UTS, Catholic University CSU goes ahead there is the potential total of 170 general staff jobs lost.
The Union has organised an on line petition to protest the University of Sydney decision to cut its undergraduate nursing courses.
To download the CPSU petition to protest the transfer of the Faculty of Nursing go to: http://www.psa.labor.net.au/campaigns/1088132341_10282.html
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