CPSU Federal Office

The largest ever leak of negotiating documents from the controversial Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) highlights the madness of secrecy and provides no comfort for users of public services.  Seventeen separate secret documents were released today including working papers and nine critical annexes on sensitive sectors such as financial services, postal services, maritime, domestic regulation, telecommunications, professional services, and labour migration.  The latest leaks highlight the cat and mouse game being played by the

The Executive Board of Public Services International (PSI) met on 27 and 28 May to assess progress over the past year and to decide on further priorities and activities.

The primary focus of CPSU's submission to the Federal Government's Inquiry into Workplace Relations being undertaken by the Productivity Commission is that bargaining against the Crown requires a unique arbitral solution to overcome stalemates for government employees.  The Public Service is a unique employer being legislator, regulator as well as employer.  Bargaining with the Crown requires

CPSU's submission to the Standing Committee on Health Inquiry into Hepatits C in Australia serves to explain the concerns and opposition to any proposal to introduce a needle and syringe exchange program into our prisons.  CPSU members in prisons occupy roles in a work environment unparallelled in respect to the risk of ocupational violence compared to any other across the country.  Our members accept this risk on a daily basis and do all they can to minimise it through effective case management and security strategies at a personal, operational and policy level.  They do so whilst juggling

Community Services caseworkers from across NSW walked off the job for an hour to highlight a staffing crisis that is preventing effective child protection in NSW.  The spontaneous action by PSA members follows the NSW Government’s outrageous claims in the Sunday Telegraph

Since 2011 the New South Wales Government has acted in contravention to a number of fundamental conventions of the Internal Labour Organisation with respect to the treatment of its own workers and their right to collectively bargain. 

Our Corrections industry across Australia is under intense pressure as competing demands are starting to impact on life behind the walls forcing ad hoc responses by our State Governments, CPSU Federal Secretary Karen Batt said today.  "Isolated policy responses so far have resulted in a record numbers of prisoners, irresponsible overcrowding, escalating prisoner on prisoner and prisoner on Officer assaults, prisoner classification downgrades to match bed availability, stop gap solutions to bed shortages, backlogs in our Courts, and expensive announcements for more prisons but with half a de

Notice of Lodgement of Application to Replace Chapter C of the CPSU Rules.  Members should be aware that on Wednesday 10 December the Community and Public Sector Union filed an application, notice of particulars, and supporting documents under s159 of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act to replace the entire Chapter C of the CPSU Rule book.  The replacement Chapter C was designed to modernise the rules, make them more easy to follow and to ensure ease of compliance.  If any member wishes to view the documents filed in support of this application please contact

The Public Service Association says that thousands of public servants are at risk of losing their jobs under new rules that prevent temporary employees from working for more than four years with the same government agency.  The PSA has written to the Public Service Commissioner about the impact these changes will have on temporary employees unable to secure full time employment or a job with another agency by February next year when the new rule comes into affect.  Half of the full-time equivalent temporary employees have been working for mo