Lectures and tutorials at universities nationwide will be cancelled tomorrow as university union staff walk off the job over what they say are low pay rates.
Association of University Staff (AUS) members will show their solidarity in pickets and marches at six universities, while at Otago a stopwork meeting is scheduled.
AUS hopes the action will help redress the "systematic underfunding of New Zealand universities since 1991" that has lead to staff being significantly underpaid.
The present situation means New Zealand universities will face serious recruitment and retention problems by 2010, AUS claims.
The protest aims at attracting the Government's attention as it is the major funder of universities, and controls student fees - a major source of income for universities.
Industrial action is set to be repeated on August 4, with rolling stoppages to take place in between.
Universities to be hit by strike
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