Unions NSW: University of Sydney strike

Unions NSW members will join Sydney University workers at picket lines on Thursday. 

Employees at one of the country's largest and oldest universities have voted to strike to keep limits on workloads and working hours.

National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU)  and Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) members at Sydney University will take action from 7am.

Unions NSW secretary Mark Lennon said the future of tertiary education was at stake.

"Management at Sydney Uni want to abolish workload limits and remove restrictions on working hours," Mr Lennon said.

"They're effectively undercutting the very conditions that guarantee quality education.

"We can't allow our universities to become a production line for substandard degrees."