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SCU Staff Lodge Ground Breaking Green Pay Claim

The Southern Cross University Branch of the CPSU, the university General Staff Union, unanimously voted to endorse a log of claims for a 9% per annum pay rise linked to environmental sustainability. Following the vote, the ...

Hawke on WorkChoices wind back

Former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke told a labour law conference in Sydney that the inconsistencies between state and federal industrial relations laws is one of the biggest challenges being faced by the Government. He says he ...

Time to deliver on new workplace laws

Signs of a slowdown in the economy underline the need for the urgent scrapping of Work Choices and restoration of a strong safety net of rights and entitlements for Australian workers. ACTU President Sharan Burrow said ...

First Shots fired: Union tells Commission - Don't cut University staff award standards

The General Staff Union, the CPSU, has lodged its submission to the Industrial Relations Commission in the award modernisation case for university employees. This is the first stage in the Award Modernisation process. More than 50,000 University ...

World Public Services Day

Monday 23 June was World Public Services Day and the International Public Sector union, PSI, has announced its support for New South Wales unions fighting the Iemma Government’s plans to sell the public power ...

23 June Public Services Day

The UN General Assembly on 20 December 2002, designated 23 June as Public Service Day. It encourages member states to organise special events on that day to highlight the vital contribution of public administration workers around the ...

ACTU ad: Collective bargaining

How do nurses achieve better nurse-patient ratios to lift the standard of patient care? How do workers in dangerous industries win tougher safety standards? How do teachers win smaller class sizes to boost students' ability to learn? The ...

Howard buried Work Choices data

The Howard government deliberately suppressed masses of data on the ill effects of its Work Choices legislation, Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard says. Ms Gillard said the former government attempted to shoot the messenger when it attacked Sydney's Workplace ...

Workers get new employment standards

The Labor Government's new National Employment Standards (NES) announced today are an important step towards plugging the gaps in workers' rights and entitlements that have been left by Work Choices say unions. The new standards will ensure that ...

Wages: Government gets 4.2% to keep up with inflation

MPs have received an allowance increase of 4.2 per cent from the Parliamentary Remuneration Tribunal to keep in line with inflation. Unions New South Wales secretary John Robertson says that if the Government acknowledges that MPs need ...