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The Australian - General Staff lodge 9 per cent pay claim

THE AUSTRALIAN Unis call for part of the budget surplus to be ploughed into research Sid Marris | April 03, 2008 THE bigger universities want some of the windfall from next month's federal budget to be put ...

Banks are pushing debt onto working families: unions call for cuts to lending targets

Unions call on the banks and other lenders to immediately cut the loan and credit sales targets that are imposed on bank workers and to review lending practices in the banking and finance industry. The ABC 4 Corners ...

University General Staff Endorse Nine Per Cent National Pay Claim PRESS RELEASE

Union delegates from throughout Australia today (Wednesday 2 April) unanimously endorsed a national campaign seeking a nine per cent per annum pay increase for University General Staff. The union covering general staff, the Community and Public Sector Union , ...

Uni contractor fined over AWA threat to worker - Canberra Times

Author: By Kate Hannon Publication: The Canberra Times (,Tue 01 Apr 2008) Defence services contractor Serco Sodexho Defence Services has been rapped over the knuckles over a complaint that one of its managers tried to force a 19-year-old ...

ACTU outlines objectives

ACTU Secretary, Jeff Lawrence (extract from address to National Press Club 12 March 2008) Unions remain determined to carry on the Your Rights at Work campaign until we see Work Choices buried and decent rights for working ...

Gillard buries the AWA corpse

The first of the Howard government's industrial reforms will become history today with the outlawing of new Australia Workplace Agreements. The Governor-General, Michael Jeffery, formally proclaimed the law yesterday, thus banning new AWAs from midnight. The move ...

ACTU backs paid maternity leave call

The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) says it supports the former federal sex discrimination commissioner's calls for the Rudd Government to bring in a national paid maternity leave scheme. Pru Goward, now a Liberal MP ...

University General Staff welcome end of Howard era AWAs

University staff have welcomed the announcement that the former Howard Government’s forced offering of AWA’s to staff has ended. The Community and Public Sector Union, representing General Staff in the University sector, welcomed Federal Education Minister ...