 “Don’t Be A Target” – CPSU Campaign for a Safer Workplace Having a Safe & Healthy Workplace is Essential
Recognising the importance of a safe & healthy workplace, the Union’s Occupational Health and Safety Committee launched the “Don’t be a Target” Campaign in 2003.
The campaign highlights the key health and safety problems identified by our members and provides tools for us to help tackle these issues together.
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16 November 2004 [ read more ]
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Work Overload Campaign Kit Launched David Carey, Federal Secretary of the CPSU (SPSF Group) launched the new “Work Overload Campaign Kit” at a meeting of the NSW PSA Central Council. -
16 November 2004 [ read more ]
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CPSU SPSF Federal Accounts In accord with the Workplace Relations Act. 1996, RAO Schedule, here are published the Accounts of the CPSU SPSF Federal Fund, Statement of Financial Performance, Statement of Financial Position,Statement of Cash Flows, Operating Report, Independent Auditor's Report for the financial Year 2003-2004 -
03 November 2004 [ read more ]
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Universities and the Election As Mark Latham announced ALP University Policy this week, David Carey the Federal Secretary of the CPSU SPSF, the union for University General Staff today urged University Members of the CPSU not to forget the last few years of Howard Government policy for Universities. -
07 October 2004 [ read more ]
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Women and Financial Independence: While women have always worked whether it be in the paid or unpaid sectors of the society, over the last few decades the financial position of women in Australian society has shifted. An increase in women’s employment in the formal economy, the decline of the idea of family male breadwinner and changes in the social structure have meant that women’s incomes now make a more formal and important contribution to maintaining their own lives and that of their families and sustaining the community in general.
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22 September 2004 [ read more ]
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Pay Equity Action Week Public Services International has nominated 4th to the 8th October as Pay Equity International Week. We urge women members to raise the awareness of pay equity and to celebrate the work of women and their trade unions in improving the wages and conditions of women -
20 September 2004 [ read more ]
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School and Home Meet Chaos Rules! Former teacher and comedian/presenter, Kerry Cue ponders the role of School Support teams. -
25 August 2004 [ read more ]
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Federal Election 2004 Feeling confused? Who is saying What? When? Why? What is important to you? -
09 August 2004 [ read more ]
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Child Abuse and Neglect Summit Families Australia organised a Child Abuse and Neglect Summit, held in Canberra in June 2004. The Summit brought together key stakeholders from government, the business sector, unions, churches, the health sector and the community sector to discuss how they can work together to stop the rising incidence of child abuse and neglect in Australia.
David Perkins of the Community and Public Sector Union delivered the following speech.
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04 August 2004 [ read more ]
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Get on the roll! Are you sure you are enrolled to vote? Thousands of Australians are not on the Electoral Roll. Thousands more aren't on the Roll for the right address. If a Federal Election is called quickly you may not get a chance to vote. Check it out now. Make sure you, and your family members are able to "do the right thing" The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) website has all the information you need. -
12 July 2004 [ read more ]
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Medicare Marauders The Medical Marauders want to knock down the Australian health system one brick at a time. And they want to stop you from building a bulk billing medical centre. They will throw cuts at the Australian health system and it's up to you to stop them. -
10 June 2004 [ read more ]
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Pay Equity – Activism Reaps Rewards On the 25th March, 2004 the Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC) held a Pay Equity Conference. The Conference was opened by Karen Batt the Federal President of the Community and Public Sector Union - State Public Services Federation (CPSU-SPSF) and the opening address was conducted by Rob Hulls the Victorian Minister for Industrial Relations. For those attending there was cause for excitement and optimism. The hard work that many women in the Victorian trade union movement had put in was to be rewarded; an investigation into pay equity was to be announced. -
01 April 2004 [ read more ]
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A Just Australia A Just Australia brings together 11,000 individual supporters of refugees and over 100 refugee advocacy organisations – and they are always looking for more support.
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24 March 2004 [ read more ]
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Violence, Threats and Intimidation of Child Protection Workers New study looks at working conditions of Child Protection Workers. -
15 March 2004 [ read more ]
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Workplace Bullying Organisations throughout Australia are recognising the startling depth and breadth of a problem which has gone on for far too long. -
02 March 2004 [ read more ]
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Union breaks 2.5% ceiling on Public Sector Pay Rise The recent offer by the Tasmanian State Government to pay public sector workers more than 4% per annum has broken open the “unofficial agreement" by all State Governments to keep State public sector pay rises down to 2.5% per annum. -
23 February 2004 [ read more ]
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The Child Protection Outcomes Project Deadline for submissions is 13 February 2004. -
05 February 2004 [ read more ]
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Work Strain Causes Real Pain In 2001, more than 76,000 Australian workers received workers' compensation for 'sprain and strain' or musculoskeletal injuries' - that's more than 200 per day and two thirds of all claims. -
22 January 2004 [ read more ]
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STUDY FINDS CASUAL STAFF SEEK GREATER SECURITY A recent study by University of New South Wales academic, Dr. Anne Junor, "What Explains the Employment Mode of Preferences of Casual University Employees?" has found that the majority of casual general staff would prefer more permanent and secure forms of employment. -
20 January 2004 [ read more ]
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Workplace bans bring Victorian justice to a halt In pursuit of better wage conditions, Victorian court staff introduced bans on processing paperwork in December last year. Since then the state’s civil justice system has been slowly grinding to a halt as it increasingly becomes impossible to start new legal action. -
14 January 2004 [ read more ]
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Public Sector Wages Agreement Public Sector Union members in Tasmania will hold stop work meetings to consider a campaign of rolling industrial action unless the Government is willing to move significantly on a number of key issues. -
13 January 2004 [ read more ]
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Union calls for needs-based funding The Queensland Public Sector Union (QPSU), the union for child protection has demanded that all political parties agree to a “needs-based funding model” for child protection services following the release of the Crime and Misconduct Commission’s (CMC) report into abuse of children in foster care. -
06 January 2004 [ read more ]
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The Child Protection Outcomes Project The Victorian Government has released the ‘Protecting Children: The Child Protection Outcomes Project’, and is now in a consultative phase. -
30 December 2003 [ read more ]
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Consumer groups lobby trade minister Below is a statement by health and consumer organisations on the impact of the free trade agreement on the cost of medicines. Please write or email Mark Vaile using the quotes below to keep the pressure up about this issue.
Mark Vaile
Minister for Trade
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
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19 December 2003 [ read more ]
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Federal Government hurts families The Australian Council of Social Service has released new data comparing the actual cost of meeting the bare minimum needs for families raising children with the payment levels for family tax benefit and social security. -
16 December 2003 [ read more ]
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State of the States: Evatt Foundation This is the foreward from the special 10th anniversary issue of the Evatt Foundation's annual assessment of Australia's sub-national governments, The State of the States. -
08 December 2003 [ read more ]
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Naked Berliners protest university cuts Agence France Presse is reporting that dozens of naked Berlin students have braved freezing temperatures to streak through the centre of the German capital to protest at plans to cut spending for universities. -
08 December 2003 [ read more ]
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Nelson refuses to budge on Higher Ed IR requirements Below is a press release from Brendan Nelson's office in relation to the Higher Education reforms. -
18 November 2003 [ read more ]
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Unemployment rate twice what Government says Unemployment and underemployment stands at around 1.3 million — just over twice the official rate according to major new research by ACOSS. -
13 November 2003 [ read more ]
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Housing dream turns to nightmare The dream of stable and secure housing has turned into a nightmare for 330,000 low income families and households who are shut out of owning their own home and are being crushed by high rents in the private rental market. -
30 October 2003 [ read more ]
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ILO to examine Government's University reform agenda The CPSU and six other unions taking part in tomorrow's national strike at higher education institutions have referred the Federal Governments university workplace
relations requirements to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). -
16 October 2003 [ read more ]
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Oct 16 wins support of all Higher Education Unions Seven unions covering university staff across Australia will be supporting the October 16th higher education strike to protest the Government's proposal to deny universities access to $404 million in funding unless they adopt a series of hard line industrial conditions, and to press home their claim
for enterprise agreements that do not contain the conditions. -
09 October 2003 [ read more ]
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Community corrections officers release diaries The Rev Tim Costello today launched a resource that includes excerpts from diaries of Community Corrections officers from throughout Australia. -
07 October 2003 [ read more ]
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Higher ed package fails to address student poverty: ACOSS The Government's higher education proposals fail to address the problem of student poverty and are likely to lead to fewer students from low income families attending university, finds an Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) Senate Inquiry submission released today. -
07 October 2003 [ read more ]
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Survey investigates violence against women The Victorian Trades Hall Council Women's Committee has launched a survey investigating the issue of violence against women in the
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03 October 2003 [ read more ]
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Uni staff call on new minister to avoid legislating for conflict The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), the main union covering non teaching University staff, has endorsed a National Day of Action on October 16 in protest over the Federal Government’s industrial relations agenda. The CPSU has promised an ongoing national campaign of industrial and community action. -
30 September 2003 [ read more ]
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Freedom to Be Robbed Paid maternity leave, superannuation contributions and many other rights are threatened under the Abott and Nelson new funding requirements, writes Suzanne Hammond, CPSU-SPSF Federal Women's Industrial Officer. -
29 September 2003 [ read more ]
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Union Executive Response to “Way Forward” proposal NSW Prison Officers Branch (POVB), members of the NSW CPSU-SPSF Group, has responded to the NSW State Corrective Services Department's proposal to use permanent part time (PPT) officers. The POVB rejects their proposal and states it is flawed -
14 September 2003 [ read more ]
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Columbian Unionists Rights Focus for PSI The PSI, our international union for the Public Sector, is joining the international union movement to campaign for human rights in Columbia. Hundreds of unionists, mostly public servants, education and health workers, have been killed in last two years; just for being unionists.
International Human Rights Day, is on December 10th 2003.
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05 September 2003 [ read more ]
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Senate Inquiry into University Funding The CPSU-SPSF group has made a submission to the Federal Government's Inquiry into Higher Education Funding and Regulatory Legislation. In it, we argue that the University Budget package is regressive and unfair. The anti-Union "Workplace Productivity Programme" is essentially a replacement for the former scheme instituted by Minister Kemp in the years 2000-2003. -
24 August 2003 [ read more ]
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Rally for Public Education: save TAFE and Universities The Tertiary Education Alliance is organising a National Day of Action for Education on Wednesday 27th August. -
18 August 2003 [ read more ]
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Stressed Employees Worked To Death The ACTU says Australia has the second longest working hours in the OECD and, on current trends, will soon have the longest.
UnionSafe is joining a global internet campaign highlighting the link between workplace stress and death.
In Australia one of the leading causes of stress is overwork and incidences of the condition are on the rise. -
11 August 2003 [ read more ]
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PM slams paid maternity leave The ACTU has accused the Prime Minister, John Howard, of abandoning working families by scrapping plans for a major revamp of work and family policies. -
06 August 2003 [ read more ]
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Anti-discrimination staff strike over cuts The NSW Government earlier this month announced massive funding cuts to the Anti-Discrimination Board This year's budget has been reduced by $750,000. This is a cut of 23%, and a further 30% cut is expected next year.
For more details see the press release below and come to the rally 3.30 pm Friday Farrer Place Sydney. -
31 July 2003 [ read more ]
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Email your protest to the Federal Government Have your say, by August 15, about how the proposed changes to Tertiary Education will affect you, your family or your community by sending a Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Higher Education. The article below includes links for making email submissions. -
31 July 2003 [ read more ]
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Are you a carer living in NSW? Carers are family members, friends or neighbours who support a person with a disability, chronic or mental illness or who is too frail to live in their own home. -
24 July 2003 [ read more ]
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Rebuild services before cutting taxes - unions Unions will encourage their members to oppose any across-the-board tax cuts in the run up to the next federal election unless essential public
services are adequately funded.
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15 July 2003 [ read more ]
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Senate inquiry into higher ed reforms announced The Senate today (Thursday 26, 2003) resolved to launch an inquiry into the Howard Government’s radical higher education package, announced in this year’s Federal Budget. -
26 June 2003 [ read more ]
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CPSU wins wage increase for private prison officers The CPSU has won an important victory in the battle to bring privately employed prison officers up to the same salary level as their counterparts employed in public prisons. -
19 June 2003 [ read more ]
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European unions fight high executive pays British, Dutch and German unions have sent an appeal on excessive executive pay to: the European Commission, and the national governments of Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. -
13 June 2003 [ read more ]
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Hagglers form guide to higher ed wages Issue Number Three
In the article below Sue Hammond, Federal Women's Industrial Officer, gives a run-down on the latest developments in wages, industrial developments and higher education reform. -
02 June 2003 [ read more ]
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Union leader pledges support for asylum seekers ACTU president Sharan Burrow has pledged to join refugee rights groups in an effort to stop the Federal Government's inhumane treatment of asylum
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29 May 2003 [ read more ]
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Executives: More pay for less work The NSW Labor Council has released ground-breaking research that shatters the link between high executive pay and return to shareholders. -
23 May 2003 [ read more ]
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Cut spending, unions and student places: Federal Budget The long awaited outcome of the `Crossroads Inquiry’ into Higher Education was delivered in the Federal Budget on the 13th May. Sue Hammond, CPSU-SPSF Federal Women's Industrial Officer, discusses outlines the changes and discusses the consequences not just for University staff but for Australian families, students and prospective students. -
19 May 2003 [ read more ]
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Federal Government fails families - again The Government’s decision not to support working families with any form of national paid maternity leave is sadly disappointing for Australia’s working families, says Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward. -
14 May 2003 [ read more ]
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Community Unites Against Howard’s Medicare Changes Leaders of health, union, welfare, church, and political groups will meet in Melbourne today to oppose the Howard Government’s planned Medicare changes.
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02 May 2003 [ read more ]
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Older Women's Network Survey Participants are needed for a survey,which will develop a broad map of what older women contribute through their various voluntary efforts. -
30 April 2003 [ read more ]
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Howard Attacks Education - Again In 2002 the Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson began yet another review of tertiary education. The outcomes of that process are to be announced in the Federal Budget on May 13. -
30 April 2003 [ read more ]
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New report says no equal pay in our lifetime April 19 is Equal Pay Day in the US but as a new report states, it's not a day for celebrating. -
10 April 2003 [ read more ]
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Separating families face longer delays Separating families face longer delays, as Howard Government budget cuts force the Family Court to further slash the number of its Senior Registrars. -
08 April 2003 [ read more ]
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Globalisation? Privatisation! The World Trade Organisation is not just reducing barriers to international trade. It is also opening up public services to commercial exploitation – and it is already happening, warn Allyson Pollock and David Price from the health policy and health services research unit, University College London.
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28 February 2003 [ read more ]
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NZ Prime Minister sets the Agenda New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark outlines how a progressive social democratic government, working with unions, can create a fair and just society. -
18 February 2003 [ read more ]
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US union urges Bush to pursue peace The largest union in North America, the Service Employees International Union, has written to US President George Bush urging him to not invade Iraq and work with the Congress and the United Nations to "set a course that will provide lasting security for all." The full text of the letter is below. -
07 February 2003 [ read more ]
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Mandela strikes at Bush In a hard-hitting speech Nelson Mandela questions the role of the United States in world affairs and accuses George Bush of 'wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust'. Read the full speech below.
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05 February 2003 [ read more ]
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Say No to War On the 16th February there will be protests in London, New York and throughout Australia against the War in Iraq.
In Melbourne, there will be a Rally for Peace at 5pm. Phone 613 9659 3582 to find out where.
In Sydney, meet 12 noon Hyde Park North, Sydney
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22 January 2003 [ read more ]
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Unions and community groups act to stop war Internet group of 600,000 Americans finances controversial TV campaign to pressure Bush administration to "let the inspections work"
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21 January 2003 [ read more ]
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UNSW agreement update The CPSU is close to reaching agreement with UNSW management on wage increases for general staff, as well as improved career advancement, job security and other improvements in conditions. -
10 January 2003 [ read more ]
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Pay increase for Sydney Uni staff The PSA has settled an Interim Agreement with Sydney University management delivering a 4% salary increase for general staff. -
10 January 2003 [ read more ]
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Privatisation wave hits NSW In a major win for the national and international privatisation lobby, nine new public schools in NSW are to be built and managed by private firms writes Fay Gervasoni from the Evatt Foundation. -
06 January 2003 [ read more ]
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Boost to NSW Child Protection staff The NSW Government today announced major increases to staff at the Department of Community Services. -
18 December 2002 [ read more ]
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NSW DOCS fined over staff assaults The NSW Department of Community Services (DOCS) was today fined $285,000 for offences under the OHS Act 1983, following assaults on Disability Services Staff. -
12 December 2002 [ read more ]
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Columbian unionists assaulted and killed Recently, Jorge Humberto Marín Henao, the President of the Municipal Employees Association (ADEM), a PSI affiliate in Medellin, was at the union office. An unknown man came in and asked to see the President. He was shown into his office and said "Don Julio Cesar has asked me to tell you that you must leave the city and this is your last warning." He then got out a revolver and slammed it down over the President's skull. -
10 December 2002 [ read more ]
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School admin staff vote to strike NSW delegates representing School Administrative and Support Staff have voted to call a strike of members during the first week of Term 1 next year. -
26 November 2002 [ read more ]
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Child protection members lift court bans Bans placed by members in the NSW Department of Community Services on the St James Children's Court due to security concerns have been lifted.
Interim security measures have been put in place and it is hoped hearings in the Industrial Relations Commission will resolve the issue. -
26 November 2002 [ read more ]
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Stamping on the union A Canadian artist has put his stamp on the international trade union movement - literally. -
10 October 2002 [ read more ]
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How can we protect our children? Do we want to know the true extent of the problems associated with child abuse and neglect and provide the resources to deal with the problem or do we regress and pretend there is no problem? Below is the PSA submission to an Upper House enquiry into child protection issues.
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30 August 2002 [ read more ]
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Higher Education hagglers guide Issue Number 2 of the latest news from the CPSU on pay deals and rates in agreements, and awards produced for University Members and other Hagglers in the Workplace.
Since the first Haggler’s Form Guide came out in May there has been little change in wage levels. -
09 August 2002 [ read more ]
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British welfare unions fight for pay UNISON, the UK’s largest trade union, has warned that the government could not deliver improved social services for older people while staff remained underpaid and overworked.
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08 August 2002 [ read more ]
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Crime doesn't pay say Vic forensic staff Police forensic staff in Victoria are finding it harder and harder to do their jobs as positions and resources are slashed. Earlier this week they took their protest to the streets. -
03 July 2002 [ read more ]
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Child Protection : National Union Campaign National Union action plannned for Child Protection Workers. . More Resources and Funds needed and stop blaming the workers - says Union. -
17 June 2002 [ read more ]
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NSW: Librarians Interim Award finalised The Full Bench of the Industrial Relations Commission of NSW has made the interim award for Crown Employees (Librarians, Library Technicians and Archivists) Interim Award. The PSA had been directed to file and serve this award by the Full Bench in their decision of 28th March 2002. The PSA did this but there were discussions with the PSMO and TAFE because there were different rates arising from anomalies in the appendices to the Full Bench decision. Today after submissions from all parties the Full Bench clarified their position and with 4 minor amendments to the PSA application, made the interim award in line with appendix 8 of their decision.
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31 May 2002 [ read more ]
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Librarians case sets new benchmark for equal pay On the 28th March 2002 the Full Bench of the NSW Industrial Commission handed down a decision that affected State Librarians, Library Officers and Archivists. Below is a summary of the decision and evidence presented. -
08 May 2002 [ read more ]
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CPSU targets bullying at universities As part of an ongoing campaign to target the problem of workplace bullying and harassment, the CPSU recently conducted a survey of Sydney University Staff to investigate evidence that suggested such behaviour was on the increase. -
02 April 2002 [ read more ]
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Union wins for all women workers A decision by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission today to award librarians a pay rise was a landmark decision that could set a new benchmark for many women's wages, CPSU (SPSF) Federal Secretary, David Carey said today. -
28 March 2002 [ read more ]
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National Campaign Kicks Off ACTU Secretary Greg Combet and Federal CPSU (SPSF) Federal Secretary David Carey are urging university support staff throughout the country to get involved in a union campaign. -
13 March 2002 [ read more ]
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12 March 2002 [ read more ]
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Union wins wage increase News for Corrective Services members including a wage increase and union action to improve conditions. -
07 March 2002 [ read more ]
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Uni's can't work without General Staff A national campaign promoting the importance of University General Staff kicks off in Sydney on Tuesday 12 March 2002.
The campaign is designed to promote the essential and valuable roles of "General Staff" within universities and the critical role of the CPSU in representing the industrial interests of general staff.
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05 March 2002 [ read more ]
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NSW PSA to launch major mat leave campaign The PSA is planning a major campaign for 2002 to improve entitlements for maternity, parental and adoption leave in the Crown Employees (Conditions of Employment) Award. Read on to have your say in formulating the demands and implementing the campaign. -
25 February 2002 [ read more ]
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"Workers Out" 2002 Gay and Lesbian Unionist conference launches The 2nd World Conference of Lesbian and Gay trade unionists is this week launching its work at NSW Parliament House, marking an 11 month countdown to the conference which will be held prior to the 2002 Gay Games. -
04 December 2001 [ read more ]
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Tell the banks where to go! Are you sick of high bank fees, poor customer service, and banks forcing impossible (and often unpaid) workloads onto their employees? Then take two minutes to do something about it!
Sign on to the Finance Sector Union petition at the website listed below:
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28 November 2001 [ read more ]
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Unions step up maternity leave push By NSW PSA Women's Unit
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has stepped up its push for maternity leave rights launching a new campaign kit to win 14 weeks paid leave for working women. -
23 November 2001 [ read more ]
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Prison Officers Trained in Suicide Prevention Prison Officers are currently trialling a Suicide/Self Harm Training Resource Kit developed to prevent deaths in custody in Victoria. -
23 October 2001 [ read more ]
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Overview: Parental Leave Entitlements The CPSU/SPSF is committed to ensuring that members are able to balance work and family commitments, and the Union is campaigning for improved parental leave for all workers.
A comprehensive table of provisions lists members' entitlements. -
04 October 2001 [ read more ]
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CPSU Senate Submission In Septmber 2001 the Senate Committee inquiring into the capacity of universities to meet Australia's higher education needs released its report. The report confirms the CPSU submission, finding that universities are in a state of crisis. -
04 October 2001 [ read more ]
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