University of Newcastle Enterprise Bargaining Update No. 11

February 17, 2010

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Enterprise Bargaining 2010
Meeting was held on 3 February, the Chancellery

Your CPSU Bargaining team met on Wednesday with the University for the first round of bargaining for this year.

There were 11 clauses on the table and negotiations took place on 8 of the clauses, with several requiring slight changes and the others to be redrafted and returned for further negotiation. A more detailed bulletin will follow regarding the Managing Staff Workloads clause –the University is to respond with a redraft by 5 March with negotiations to continue at the meeting of 18 March. The CPSU raised the issue of inquiry processes generally in the context of the Classification Structure and Review clause particularly the concept of the Inquiry officer.

We asked the University to review their earlier advice of the completion date for bargaining of the 31 March 2010, as this objective is clearly not going to be achieved. Your Campaign team is planning activities to mobilise members and raise awareness of current issues, including the need for a pay increase. (The last was in May 2009)

To progress negotiations, time was spent on scheduling further dates including additional meetings, determining agendas and structuring discussions.

The table below shows the status of Clauses brought to the table or scheduled to be brought to the table so far.

#	Clause	Agreed with	Actions Required	Date to negotiate
19	Performance of Duties	Partial	Agreed, subject to other related clauses
20	Staff Reports	Yes	Agreed to maintain current clause
21	Managing Staff Workloads	No	Uni to redraft and include CPSU points raised	18/03/10
22	Classification Structure and Review	No	CPSU to review clause and table CPSU version	18/03/10
23	Incremental Progression	Partial	Agreed to, subject to the addition of changes to some wording	18/03/10
24	Job Redesign	No	Uni and CPSU to redraft for next meeting	18/03/10
25	Secondment, Transfer or Placement	No	Uni and CPSU to redraft for next meeting	18/03/10
26	Probation	No	Further Negotiations Needed	18/03/10
27	Relieving Allowances	No	Negotiations Yet To Occur	TBA
28	Higher Duties Allowances	No	Negotiations Yet To Occur	TBA
29	On-Call Allowances	No	Negotiations Yet To Occur	TBA