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			<title>Australians deserve a real debate on public services</title>
			<description>Australia needs genuine debate on public services, not just another arid squabble over &amp;#39;savings&amp;#39;, says the CPSU&amp;#39;s Nadine Flood.</description>
			<link>http://www.cpsu.org.au/campaigns/news/27370.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Pay equity at last for 150,000 social and community sector workers</title>
			<description>The full bench ruling of Fair Work Australia for social and community sector workers on 1 February is a landmark in the fight for equal pay for women, says the ACTU. 
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			<link>http://www.cpsu.org.au/issues/news/27407.html</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:51:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Employers stuck in past and must catch up to values on equal pay for women </title>
			<description>Employers must move on from old-fashioned ideas about women?s work and make a genuine commitment to overcome the 18% gap between men and women?s pay, say unions.</description>
			<link>http://www.cpsu.org.au/issues/news/27291.html</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:07:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>PS cuts are the problem, not the answer: media release</title>
			<description>The CPSU has vowed to hold the Government accountable for every job and service lost as public service agencies struggle to accommodate an increased efficiency dividend and other budget cuts.
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			<link>http://www.cpsu.org.au/campaigns/news/27280.html</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:33:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>January at the bargaining table - FaHCSIA back pay and pay </title>
			<description>Over the last month at the bargaining table, the FaHCSIA management team provided an updated salary offer, the CPSU launched a petition to the Special Minister of State in support of back pay and management discussed one off productivity payments ? who says nothing happens in January? </description>
			<link>http://www.cpsu.org.au/campaigns/news/27267.html</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:23:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>From door to door - We?ve got compensation covered</title>
			<description>Your Staff Association believes that all CSIRO, NMI and AAO employees deserve a healthy and safe workplace. But when things go wrong with work ? through accident, illness or injury ? people should be looked after. 

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			<link>http://www.cpsu.org.au/agency/news/27260.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:55:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Telstra Project Evolution update: We?re listening</title>
			<description>Members have asked the CPSU to continue to work constructively with Telstra management to ensure that as many members as possible who wish to retain their employment with Telstra can do so.</description>
			<link>http://www.cpsu.org.au/agency/news/27256.html</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:57:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Your personal leave under attack in ASIC</title>
			<description>Know your rights with the CPSU</description>
			<link>http://www.cpsu.org.au/agency/news/27221.html</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:51:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>ATO Graduates - Have you been directed to work at lower level? </title>
			<description>Know your rights with the CPSU.</description>
			<link>http://www.cpsu.org.au/agency/news/27220.html</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:46:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Hands up who cares about literacy</title>
			<description>The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (ALNF) has launched a campaign targeting the literacy gap for children living in remote Indigenous communities.</description>
			<link>http://www.cpsu.org.au/issues/news/26378.html</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>FaHCSIA back pay - status update</title>
			<description>Last week both CPSU and FaHCSIA management sent all staff communications to let you know that the Special Minister of State, the Hon Gary Gray, (SMoS) will not be granting back pay to FaHCSIA on the basis of a recommendation from the APSC. </description>
			<link>http://www.cpsu.org.au/campaigns/news/27175.html</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>27 January leave - CPSU action gets results for ATO staff</title>
			<description>CPSU has been advised that LB&amp;amp;I management have retracted their flex and FWA ban for 27 January. </description>
			<link>http://www.cpsu.org.au/agency/news/27169.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:28:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>ATO Know Your Rights - leave on Friday 27 January 2012 </title>
			<description>CPSU members in LB&amp;amp;I Melbourne have advised that management have banned them (in writing) from accessing flex leave or flexible working arrangements on the Friday after Australia day (27 January). </description>
			<link>http://www.cpsu.org.au/agency/news/27163.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:44:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>CPSU grants: closing soon</title>
			<description>If you want to boost your career with a CPSU Skills/Qualifications Grant, apply now as applications close on January 27.  </description>
			<link>http://www.cpsu.org.au/issues/news/27162.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:43:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Australian workers will benefit from greater transparency of superannuation funds</title>
			<description>A Productivity Commission inquiry into default superannuation funds in modern awards will shed welcome light onto the relative performance of industry and retail funds, say unions. </description>
			<link>http://www.cpsu.org.au/issues/news/27134.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:58:00 EST</pubDate>
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