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Making agreements

CPSU members achieve better pay and conditions by acting collectively and supporting each other.

Official figures continue to show that union members earn 16% more than non-unionists on average, and that union members have greater access to leave, superannuation and other employment conditions. This is the difference that collective bargaining makes.

Better Way to Bargain in the APS

The CPSU is campaigning for a Better Way to Bargain in the APS. We are campaigning for negotiations over a framework of APS-wide wages, conditions and employment matters.

This includes:

  • establishing a new APS bargaining system under which the Australian Government Employment Bargaining Framework is negotiated;
  • wage increases for all APS employees;
  • pay inequities are addressed;
  • minimum leave conditions (including personal leave, annual leave and maternity leave);
  • work life balance measures;
  • superannuation;
  • redundancy entitlements;
  • job security measures; and
  • fair a system of representation and dispute settlement.

For more information visit our campaign page here

Bargaining outside the APS

The core claim continues to be the building block for all other CPSU bargaining campaigns. It is based on our experience negotiating hundreds of collective agreements over the last two years. The claim was developed and endorsed by your elected representatives on the sixty seven-member CPSU Governing Council (GC). It outlines key bargaining elements which GC believes should be contained in every CPSU-negotiated agreement. These include:

  • protecting terms and conditions
  • allowing for a balance between work and family life
  • improving pay and superannuation
  • ensuring employees are listened to and treated with respect

Having a core bargaining claim helps in all our bargaining campaigns. Achieving good bargaining outcomes will continue to rely on union members participating actively in bargaining campaigns and employees showing their support by joining the union.

Resources
Downloadable docs
Taking protected industrial action - frequently asked questions Taking protected industrial action - frequently asked questions
A PIRL fact sheet - prepared August 2011.
Download the pdf
Protected action ballots - frequently asked questions Protected action ballots - frequently asked questions
A PIRL factsheet - prepared August 2011.
Download the pdf
APS wide claim April 2011 APS wide claim April 2011
Download the pdf
CPSU Private Sector Claim CPSU Private Sector Claim
Designed for private sector areas, rather than Commonwealth Government non-APS areas - as at 8 November 2010.
Download the pdf
APS Bargaining Framework APS Bargaining Framework
As at 28 January 2011

Supporting Guidance for the APS Bargaining Framework Supporting Guidance for the APS Bargaining Framework
As at 28 January 2011.
Download the PDF
Related Links
Useful link
Trends in Enterprise Bargaining
DEWR's quarterly review of developments in agreement making.
[read more] workplace.gov.au
The federal government's employment and workplace relations site.
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