UNSW General Staff HAPPY PAY RISE!

Your second 2% pay rise for 2011 takes effect on 9/7/2011.  The first was effective from 7/1/2011.  You also received a $1,000 bonus (if you are permanent or fixed term, not casual).  These were won for you by the CPSU as part of the current Enterprise Agreement.  You will also receive another 2% pay rise every 6 months until July 2013.

The average pay rise across all general (professional) staff levels since the beginning of 2011 amounts to $2,638

These salary increases and improvements in conditions such as parental leave, carer's leave, domestic violence leave, casual loadings, workload protections, and numerous other improvements, flow directly as a result of your membership of the CPSU.  Your membership fees provide the CPSU with the ability to negotiate better pay and conditions for you and your colleagues.

Compared to the pay increases that we have won for you, your union fees are a negligible amount.  Is it fair that the non-union members sitting next to or near you also benefit from your commitment to supporting the union?  But they don't pay.  Every staff member who does not contribute dilutes the strength of the union's power.

The best advocate for you is the CPSU
the best advocate for the CPSU is you

Start a conversation with your colleagues.  Suggest that they join you and support the team that delivers the salaries and conditions they enjoy and take for granted.

Help them fill out the attached member's form, and call
UNSW Organiser Ian Lisser on 0408 213 339 to get him to pick up the form.

THE CPSU IS YOUR UNION. GET INVOLVED.

Authorised by John Cahill, State Branch Secretary of the CPSU, the Community and Public Sector Union (SPSF Group NSW Branch) 160 Clarence Street SYDNEY NSW 2000