Community and Public Sector Union

We are not doing forced redundancies.

Director-General Karina Arthie there, the CPSU says it's a shocking decision that will impact our most vulnerable.

Caught today for a 44-year-old man charged with further offences relating to alleged indecent acts against junior employees while working as a retail manager at stores in Belconnen.

Police say he's previously been charged with several offences against teenage workers, with another eight acts of indecency now added to the list.

Youth workers at Bimberu Youth Justice Centre went on strike today, saying they're losing hours of pay for essential on-site checks before their shifts.

CPSU says after 12 months of bargaining with the ACT government, workers are asking for a 30-minute allowance to their base pay.

But Regional Secretary Maddy Northam says they're also fighting for better training opportunities.

In order to progress through the pay scales, our members have to have a certificate and Binbury is meant to offer it.

If inflation hit 4%, workers stood to receive $1,000.

The Community and Public Sector Union campaigned against the offer and 63% of staff who voted rejected the proposal.

Focus on Genuine Staff Priorities On Monday, Ms Stephen-Smith said the Government had not considered any additional or alternative offer for the rejected administrative agreement.

We do have a couple of unions who have said that they would like to see their agreements go to ballot with the current pay offer, she told the Canberra Times.

The agency's approach was to look really hard.

If our job looks and smells like an APS job, how can we make sure that it's being done by an APS officer? Home Affairs had a very constructive relationship with the CPSU, the secretary said.

And that's department falling short on cuts to outsourcing, written by Dana Daniel.

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Hiring in the Australian Public Service has emerged as a point of contention in APS-wide bargaining as the main public sector union pushes for changes to ensure fair and merit-based recruitment in negotiations for a new enterprise agreement with the Albanese government.

A perceived lack of transparency around how merit lists and pools are drawn from and external processes being conducted despite active merit pools already existing are top concerns for community and public sector union members.

The public eye can reveal the CPSU is seeking the changes to how federal bureaucrats are hired and enabled to climb up the ranks.

with the Commonwealth so far declining to agree to its demands.

Workers at the Melbourne Arts Centre in Narm went on a historic 24-hour strike from Friday to Saturday as part of their campaign for a fair pay, secure working conditions and proper government funding for the arts sector.

The industrial action was organised by three unions, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, the Electrical Trades Union and the Community and Public Sector Union, which all have members working at the centre.

The Arts Centre is Australia's largest performing arts venue, but after years of inflation and funding cuts, workers are facing real wage cuts in their latest offer.

You can sign a petition to support the campaign at megaphone.org.au.

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Extending the probe operations contract and other similar contracts only entrenched a broken labour policy labour hire model, CPSU National Secretary Rebecca Fawcett said.

It's a model that sees labour hire workers doing the same job as their ATO colleagues but being paid 40% less and with worse conditions, Ms Fawcett said.

Australians need to be confident they are speaking with properly trained, trusted public sector employees at the ATO.

Because I did that training.

I did the trades hall training as part of my CPSU conference.

um and it was yeah there was like they gave us a piece of paper like don't call them racist um even if they're being racist or whatever um and then uh you know they gave us a little red book and whatever and i was talking to people and then someone was like oh yeah they were handing them out the train station and i said fuck off yeah my instinct was like oh it's a It's a thing with Pauline Hanson and Pauline Hanson quotes.

And the people handing them out, they're like fucking trades hall bureaucrats that have no politics, let alone good politics.