Sydney Uni staff to strike Tues, Wed SYDNEY University staff are set to strike for two full days this week after failing to negotiate a collective agreement with management. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said staff would strike again on Tuesday and Wednesday after first walking off the job on March 7. NTEU branch president Michael Thomson said the union had been negotiating for seven months without management agreeing to even one clause for a new enterprise agreement. "The strike on March 7 pretty much brought the university to a standstill and resulted in the first real movement in negotiations at our meetings with management on March 13 and 22," Mr Thomson said in a statement. However, progress towards a heads of agreement, which is designed to identify the principles to be included in a final agreement, is insufficient to call off industrial action. Management still wants to slash our conditions, attack the quality of education and increase its power to undertake changes like the job cuts in 2011-2012 without oversight. Students and trade unions are expected to join the NTEU picket line at 4.30pm (AEDT) on Tuesday.