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UNSW - Professional Staff 2% Pay Increase

UNSW - Professional Staff 2% Pay Increase

January 19, 2012
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  January 2012             Thank a CPSU Member for another 2% Pay Rise!

 2% Pay Rise for Professional Staff‡
and there will be another 2% pay rise paid in July 2012

The CPSU UNSW Branch have provided the framework for Professional staff members to represent our interests at this University for over 50 years and this pay rise is another achievement made possible by the support from fellow CPSU members.

Professional Staff work for the whole University community and we are the backbone that holds everything together. Students, Graduates and Academics are all scholars, provided with joint ownership of the University with each having their own representative body for their respective interests.

The CPSU provides the framework for your specialist UNSW Staff Association for Professional / General Staff. Along with being be largest General Staff union on campus, we are networked throughout the state and country and are the largest network of general staff members in public education. In NSW alone, your fellow 15,000 members are in every University, TAFE and School.

We operate as a democratic, member focused Association with each university branch deciding for themselves what they want for their workplaces. When you Join your CPSU Branch you become part of the UNSW Professional Staff Network and contribute to all decisions that effect you in your workplace. With hundreds of CPSU member working together, we can achieve improvements and changes that benefit all of us, such as:

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25% Casual Loading
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Greater job security for new Professional Staff positions
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Strong conversion processes for casual and fixed term Professional Staff
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Availability of permanency for Professional Staff in externally funded Research Centers
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Domestic Violence Leave & additional support provisions
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4% pay rise each year (2 x 2%, total of 19.5% + $1,000* from the end of the last Professional Staff Collective Agreement)
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Leave for the birth of grandchildren
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And a whole lot more improvements based on what CPSU members at UNSW asked for and worked together to achieve for each other

 JOIN Your Union. JOIN Your CPSU.

JOIN Your UNSW Staff Association.

Go to www.thegeneralstaffunion.org.au

or www.psa.labor.net.au/join

* Per Full Time employee, pro-rate for part time
‡ Professional Staff & General Staff are different terms used for non-academic employees
CPSU | UNSW
The General Staff Union
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What CPSU Members WON for UNSW
General Staff!

1.
19.5% PAY INCREASE COMPOUNDED OVER THE LIFE OF THE AGREEMENT
(2% Administrative Payments made in July 2009, January and July 2010)
2.
$1000 sign on bonus
3.
2 weeks paid Grandparent Leave, a first in Australia
4.
26 weeks Paid Parental Leave, and after 5 years service, 36 weeks Paid Parental Leave
5.
Expanded definition of “immediate family” for leave purposes
6.
Better long service leave provisions
7.
Increases to allowances over the life of the agreement
8.
Union delegates get paid time to undertake union duties
9.
20 days trade union leave per year for CPSU delegates
10.
Direction CPSU involvement in dispute resolution, job evaluation, change management and consultation on policies
11.
Increase to superannuation for fixed term staff and casuals
12.
The right to refuse overtime
13.
The first domestic violence leave clause in Australia
14.
Increased carers leave in the second year of employment, and available for caring for more people
15.
Improved defence force reserves leave
16.
An agreement free from references to gender (other than for one clause)
17.
2 days paid university holidays entrenched in the agreement
18.
The ability to accumulate annual leave from year to year, and limitations on how and when the University can direct you to reduce excess annual leave
19.
Christmas shutdown limited to three days, and flexibility in forms of leave, for staff that do not have excess annual leave (can take TOIL, Flex, LWOP)
20.
A workload monitoring clause, allowing CPSU to support members if required
21.
An increase of the casual to 25% during the life of the agreement
22.
Overtime for part time staff will attract a loading of 8.33%, up to an equivalent full time employee, when full overtime rates apply
23.
Now also allows access to flex time during core hours, to attend lectures or exams
24.
The right to extend compassionate leave, by up to an additional 20 days
25.
Protections for fixed term staff, and casuals, through Casual and Fixed Term Conversion
26.
A new category of Ongoing Employment, for staff in Research Centres
CPSU | UNSW
The General Staff Union
Organiser
 Ian Lisser
 02 9220 0960
Industrial Officer
 Blake Stephens 02 9220 0944
Authorised by John Cahill, State Branch Secretary, Community an Public Sector Union (SPSF Group, NSW Branch) 160 Clarence St Sydney NSW 2000

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