Unshakeable - The Rules are Broken

  • 25 September 2018

Workplace delegates from all unions gathered in Melbourne as part of our national Change the Rules Campaign to endorse a massive rally 'Australia Needs a Pay Rise' on Tuesday 23rd October. 

Sally McManus tells the delegates gathered about the workers she’s met around the country who’ve had cop a wage freeze while corporate profits are going through the roof. The rules are broken. Australia needs a pay rise.

S.A. Budget Blindside

  • 6 September 2018

Despite publicly stating before the election that "privatisation was not on his agenda" and "the best chance of growing public service numbers was under the Liberals", the new South Australian Government has announced it will waste $170 million in redundancies to save $280 million by cutting public service worker numbers by more than 4,000 jobs over the next four years and privatise pathology, radiology and prisoner remand services sparking widespread spontaneous protests.

How Full Are Our Jails?

  • 30 July 2018

The surge in prisoner numbers has been a threat to the health and safety of officers and ancillary staff working in the system.

All jurisdictions reported that the biggest impact on availability of beds was changes to sentencing laws, particularly Victoria and Tasmania where suspended sentences have been abolished, access to bail has been tightened and Tasmania reports that changes are going through Parliament now that will make access to remissions harder therefore further exacerbating the lack of available beds.

Taking Back Control

  • 28 June 2018

A fraud has been perpetrated on ordinary people, whether it be a person working for a Government service, or the community that uses a now privatised/corporatised service.  For the past 25-30 years we, as a nation, have had to deal with a political class (both major parties) who have felt that the way to economic prosperity for our respective States, or our Nation, was to outsource, privatise and downsize the public sector.  It has been done (and continues to be done), in the mistaken belief, that “trickle down” economics is good for everyone, from the highest paid to the lowest.

Melbourne's Rally with Sally

  • 9 May 2018

CPSU Federal Secretary and Our Victorian Branch Secretary Karen Batt addressed Melbourne's massive Change the Rules Rally outside Flinders Street Station.

‘CPSU members are here today to declare we will fight

We will fight to change the rules for the interest of all our members across the national and state tiers of government.

We are over two million workers

Standing up for public services has always been a fight we’ve taken on

Governments become our employers

Hobart Shines as Thousands Rally

  • 30 April 2018

Thousands of Tasmanian Unionists marched through the Hobart streets yesterday in bright sunshine to launch the twelve days of national action to change the rules.  Led by ACTU Secretary Sally McManus who promised the ACTU would be upping the ante to push for change in industrial relations rules. Sally McManus said many workers in Tasmania were feeling the "sharp end of trickle-down economics" arguing stronger protections were needed to make sure they get a fair go. 

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