Staff strike in Qld and Vic

Key points

• Staff at the University of Melbourne are striking for 24 hours, followed by a week of industrial action, which will cancel classes this week. The National Tertiary Education Union says unfair workloads and protections against AI are not being addressed in enterprise bargaining.
• Union members in Queensland held a half-day stop work and rally at Queensland University of Technology, University of Queensland and Griffith University.
• Union officials say talks have dragged on for more than six months without agreement, with Griffith offering no salary increase and UQ's offer falling below inflation.