The participation rates in the enterprise agreement (EA) votes were tiny—approximately 12.2 percent and 16.7 percent respectively of academics and professional staff. Western Sydney UniversityAccording to WSU management’s misleading official announcement, of the staff members who participated in the online ballots, 82.83 percent of academic staff voted Yes for the Academic Staff Agreement and 91.79 percent of professional staff voted for the Professional Staff Agreement. Taken together with the official results, they show that only 10 percent of academic staff and 15 percent of professional staff actually voted Yes. Cahill added: “When university staff stand together, they win.” The WSU Rank-and-File Committee organised an active campaign for a No vote by all WSU workers, whether academic or professional staff, or union or non-union members.