Happy Pay Rise NAA!
Today you will receive the second instalment of your CPSU-negotiated pay rise.
This instalment will increase your pay by 4% from 10 July 2008. We believe
you deserve every cent. While you are enjoying this latest increase, please take
a few minutes to reflect on how it happened.
We’re in Your Corner
Do you know how all of your conditions work? We do. The CSPU provides timely
advice and support in bargaining and to help you understand your rights and
responsibilities on a wide range of workplace and career issues, including:
Pay, allowances, allowances, classification performance appraisal,
promotions and selections
Health and safety, workers’ compensation and stress
Superannuation, retirement, redundancy, resignation, separation and
invalidity
‘code of conduct’, investigations, browsing, privacy, discipline and
misconduct
Part-time, temporary and fixed-term employment issues
Bullying, harassment, discrimination, whistle-blowing and interpersonal
disputes
Hours, meal breaks, flex and all leave matters
Agenda for change
CPSU members, wherever they work, are at the forefront of Australia's
response to the significant challenges of the decade. These challenges include
global warming; health reform; skills; education; workplace relations;
indigenous disadvantage; telecommunications and infrastructure. But do we have
the right mix of skills, people, and support to make a real difference?
What you can do
Over the next month or so, CPSU members around Australia are joining together
to build a new agenda for change. You can download the Agenda for Change
discussion paper
here.
This is the beginning of a long-term conversation with workers in our industries
about the things that really matter. While continuing to focus on the ‘core
business' of improving members' pay and conditions, we want to explore options
for tackling longer-term issues such as;
maintaining a skilled workforce in a tight labour market
managing the imminent baby-boomer exodus
protecting and promoting the value of the public sector
ensuring workers with caring responsibilities can balance their work and
life
closing the pay gaps between public and private sector and between
different agencies
Special Conferences are planned around the country as part of this national
conversation. You can find out
more here.
What can you do to help protect your pay and conditions now and into the
future?
If you are not yet a member, you are strongly encouraged to consider
joining the CPSU. If you are a member
of the union, thank you for your support, your valuable contributions help your
union to continue the work of protecting pay and conditions across the APS.
Every new member increases our strength. Every worker who chooses not to join
makes it harder for everyone to win.
To find out more about joining and getting involved, speak to your local CPSU
representative, email your CPSU organiser
Alison.Sexton-Green@cpsu.org.au
or call us on 1300 137 636.
