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Higher Education
Uni staff call on new minister to avoid legislating for conflict
30 September 2003
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.
The CPSU rejects the Government's Higher Education Workplace Relations Requirements, which links $404 million worth of funding to the implementation of extreme anti union industrial reforms. The Government's interference already threatens to delay bargaining at a number of Universities.
David Carey, Federal Secretary, said "Not happy with gutting public higher education funding, John Howard's government now wants to micro manage University staff. The Government wants to legislate for conflict"
"The Government is running an agenda of industrial blackmail in universities. All that is missing are the goons in balaclavas with savage dogs."
We are calling on the new Minister for Workplace Relations, Mr Kevin Andrews, to take a less confrontational approach to enterprise bargaining than his predecessors Abbott and Reith."
The CPSU is calling on the NSW Labor Council and the ACTU to organise a coordinated Union movement campaign to fight this attack on working people's rights.
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