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Uni wage deal is top of the class

First UNE Agreement sets standard PSnews Issue Number 146, 30 September 2009 http://nsw.psnews.com.au/Page_NSWpsn1465.html The Public Service Association has welcomed the first NSW University Agreement to be officially voted on by staff, saying it has set the standard for ...

CPSU USyd General Staff Members Endorse New Enterprise Agreement

University of Sydney CPSU members met on the 16th of September to hear a summary of the proposed 2009-2012 Agreement and to vote on the CPSU’s position of endorsement. The following resolutions were passed by ...

University of New England Bargaining Report 14

83 % VOTE YES An overwhelming majority of General Staff have voted YES to endorse the making of the new UNE General Staff & ELC Teachers Collective Agreement 2009-2012. This is despite a ...

Enterprise Bargaining Report 8

Enterprise Agreements have two components: 1. A salary offer that will attract and retain quality staff that is competitive with other comparable universities and that university staff have a fair and just wage ...

ABC News report: SCU staff seek green workplace

Posted Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:22pm AEST Staff at the Southern Cross University are applauding a new in-principle agreement that will see environmental sustainability become a key factor in workplace issues. Toni Ledgerwood, from the Community ...

INDISPENSABLE

Public Services Day June 23 2009 The UN General Assembly, in its Resolution 57/277, designated 23 June as Public Service Day. The UN Public Service Day intends to celebrate the value and virtue ...

Reforms Will Push Some Universities to Edge

Some universities around Australia will be forced to merge - and may even fold - as they struggle to meet new accreditation standards and the protective floor on student numbers is ...

Union Says No To Reduced Award Conditions

CPSU SPSF Federal Secretary, David Carey Award Modernisation should not cut Award Standards Today CPSU, the General Staff Union, told the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, in our submission regarding the Higher Education Industry - General ...

91,000 young Australian's jobs lost

Measures must be taken to prevent a generation of young Australians becoming victims of long-term unemployment as a result of the Global Financial Crisis, say unions. Commenting on the release of an OECD report, Jobs for Youth, ...

ACTU: Banks Risk Community Anger

The big banks are behaving irresponsibly by using the latest cut to official interest rates to line their pockets and bolster their bottom line, rather than helping relieve the financial pressure for working families, unions say. ACTU ...