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  CLC/CTC > Community Data for Labour Councils and Unions
The tables in the community profile provide data for your CMA and for Canada on total population, age characteristics of the population, earnings, composition of household income (wages, government transfers, etc.), and family characteristics.
The tables at the end of this paper contain data on union coverage (the percentage of workers covered by a collective agreement) for each CMA for 1997 and 2003, broken down between men and women, the public and private sector, and for young workers.
Union members are much more likely to work in the public sector, social services, or in large private sector firms, and are also older and better-educated than non-union workers on average.
canadianlabour.ca /index.php/Community_Data_for_L   (601 words)

  
  Community and Public Sector Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The CPSU came into existence on 1 July, 1994 as a result of the amalgamation of the Public Sector, Professional, Scientific, Research, Technical, Communication, Aviation and Broadcasting Union ("PSU") with the State Public Services Federation ("SPSF").
Initially, the SPSF covered a limited range of State public sector employees because of Constitutional limitations; it was unclear until the 1980's how widely the SPSF was able to operate, particularly as a party to industrial disputes.
The CPSU as The General Staff Union has been under attack as a result of an Australian Industrial Relations Commission decision under the union eligibility rules provisions contained in the Workplace Relations Act 1996, decided in 1999.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Community_and_Public_Sector_Union   (687 words)

  
 Bullying rise in public sector - National - www.theage.com.au
Bullying and harassment are widespread in the Victorian public sector, affecting one in four workers.
That is the finding of the Commissioner for Public Employment in his annual report, which showed that 23 per cent of people surveyed had been harassed or bullied in the past 12 months.
Community and Public Sector Union state secretary Karen Batt said workplace bullying was "a growing epidemic".
www.theage.com.au /news/National/Bullying-rise-in-public-sector/2004/11/17/1100574535553.html   (317 words)

  
 Social Change Online: Case Studies: Index
Community Gateways project for NSWOIT is major initiative concerned with providing community self-development tools which result in a regional gateway, or portal.
Australia’s largest public sector Schemes, the PSS and CSS now offer members up-to-the minute information and services via their website and were Silver award winners at the 2002 CMSF.
Strathfield is one of several metro Councils who have been able to benefit from the generic council website framework developed for the Local-e project, which provided 130 local councils in regional and rural NSW with websites which are compliant with Federal Government standards, interoperable with third party components, and easily scalable for future growth.
online.socialchange.net.au /client_solutions/case_studies   (1082 words)

  
 Union fears public sector job losses - National - theage.com.au
One of Victoria's major unions has demanded an urgent meeting with the Bracks Government amid growing fears that this week's budget will result in cuts to hundreds of public sector jobs.
Public sector workers were yesterday outraged over Treasury's decision to make $523 million of cuts across government departments over the next four years.
But Community and Public Sector Union branch secretary Karen Batt said there was no guarantee jobs would not be lost.
www.theage.com.au /news/National/Union-fears-public-sector-job-losses/2005/05/04/1115092561973.html   (292 words)

  
 Green Left - Issues: Public service unionism crumbling
CPSU members in Canberra were astounded to see a spreadsheet detailing recruitment targets and outcomes for 49 departments and agencies that had been accidentally attached to an email sent from the ACT branch office a fortnight ago.
Yet the public sector was once a union bastion, so the situation forms a reversal of historic proportions.
Since the community sector is one of the worst-paid sectors of the economy, the union's leaders could hardly set their expectations much lower.
www.greenleft.org.au /2001/453/25831   (844 words)

  
 CPSU, the Community & Public Sector Union - Australian Trade Union Archives Trade Union entry
The CPSU currently represents roughly 250,000 telecommunications, broadcasting and public sector workers in Australia and is at the forefront in defending the public sector and the essential services it provides to the community.
The CPSU is a federal union with Branches and Sections in each State and Territory.
CPSU members include people doing work in the areas of administration, sales, engineering, communications, information technology, technical, scientific research, broadcasting, and many others.
www.atua.org.au /biogs/ALE0394b.htm   (563 words)

  
 Green Left - By-elections in public sector union
The ALP group, which currently runs the national union, is fielding South Australian official Margaret Sexton for the deputy national president position and Abbie Piper of the union's tax division as national executive member.
CPSU Challenge, the group which won the majority of ACT branch executive positions in late 1993 on an anti-agency bargaining platform, is fielding Greg Adamson for the position.
Following the loss of their CPSU positions in 1993, this group went on to lose both the ACT government and the seat of Canberra early in 1995.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/1995/186/186p4.htm   (1079 words)

  
 UNISON the public service union - Resources
CPSU represents 250,000 telecommunications, broadcasting and public sector workers in Australia and is at the forefront in defending the public sector and the essential services it provides to the community.
The ACTU is the peak union council and national union centre representing 1,900,000 workers.
Public service employees formed CUPE to protect rights, to gain the wages and working conditions that are needed and deserved, and to achieve dignity in the workplace.
www.unison.org.uk /resources/links.asp   (3480 words)

  
 CPSU leaders kill national campaign
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) campaign for maintaining wages and conditions across the federal public service is dead after meetings around Australia voted to call off the campaign.
The seeds of defeat were sown early when the union's National Secretary argued that although APS-wide agreements were preferable, protection of wages and conditions could be achieved through agency deals.
This needs to be done both through the official delegate structures of the union and through an informal network of activists.
home.mira.net /~sp/magazine/aug97/cpsu.htm   (274 words)

  
 CPSU - UNE Sub-branch - Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Permission to attend external union meetings such as Delegates and Annual General Meetings, shall only be given after adequate notice has been provided by the Union, of such requirement to attend such meeting, and thc employee's supervisor/manager has agreed and notified the University's Industrial Relations Unit of Human Resource Services.
Unions may, with the approval of the University's Industrial Relations Unit of Human Resource Services, hold meetings of members on the University's premises at times within normal working hours and at locations agreed between the University and the union concerned.
The CPSU shall have access to the University's email system for the purpose of establishing a homepage and use of relaying and receiving email for general union business provided that such usage complies with the University's IT policy on the use of email policy (eg.
www.une.edu.au /cpsu/agreement.html   (825 words)

  
 Australian Education Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Australian Education Union (AEU) is an Australian trade union which is registered with the Australian Industrial Relations Commission as an employee group, and is affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
The AEU is affiliated with the Federation of Education Unions which unites the AEU with the IEU and the NTEU to provide a combined lobby organisation to advocate education funding and standards.
These schools were both demanded by the Australian trade union and labour movement, for the free education of the working class, and also used as a way to control the education and free time of the children of the Australian working class.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Education_Union   (929 words)

  
 Community and Public Sector Union: Campaigns: Campaign Index
The National Union and Community Day of Action on November 30 will be a historic day - as thousands of Australians come together to stand up for our rights at work.
On Thursday morning November 30, hundreds of thousands of working people and their families will join together at hundreds of locations around Australian to rally for better rights at work.
-->The campaign for a decent union agreement for DIMA is gathering pace, with hundreds of staff joining the CPSU to campaign for better pay and conditions.
www.cpsu.org.au /campaigns   (213 words)

  
 Community and Public Sector Union - UNSW Branch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Community and Public Sector Union - UNSW Branch
Community and Public Sector Union - The General Staff Union
The UNSW Branch Committee is investigating the use of a Personal Leave Clause for the next round of Enterprise Bargaining.
www.cpsu.unsw.edu.au /Issues/Personal.htm   (80 words)

  
 Union attacks call centre staff cuts: ZDNet Australia: News
The union, which represents the vast majority of the 22,000 Centrelink staff, is infuriated by the Minister for Community Services, Larry Anthony's recent announcement of 360 additional staff for national call centres.
Although the union has an enterprise agreement in place that ensures workers are paid for overtime hours, "it'll only be so long before workers can't cope with these hours," according to Gepp.
The CPSU hopes to convince the federal government to reverse staff cuts and find additional funding in the federal budget in May, through a lobbying campaign aimed at local MPs.
www.zdnet.com.au /news/soa/Union_attacks_call_centre_staff_cuts/0,139023165,120209500,00.htm   (783 words)

  
 Carolyn Jones, Union fears more funding cuts would hit education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The Community and Public Sector Union believes fewer department administrators will mean a drop in their productivity savings and this failure will have a detrimental effect on teachers and students.
But the union fears the government is now planning an extra $15million of cuts to the education public service in next week's budget.
Improvements to the whole public education system cannot be achieved by providing additional classroom teachers on the one hand and, on the other, further dismantling the infrastructure on which schools and TAFE depend,
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/24/245.html   (417 words)

  
 PSA: Information Pages: CPSU/PSA
The Community & Public Sector Union (CPSU) is a union of public sector employees which is registered under Commonwealth industrial law.
The Public Service Association of NSW is a union of public sector employees registered under NSW industrial law.
In 1994 SPSF amalgamated with the Commonwealth public service union, the Public Sector Union (PSU), to form the Community & Public Sector Union.
www.psa.labor.net.au /universities/cpsu_psa.html   (249 words)

  
 IR changes will impact on public servants: union. 10/10/2005. ABC News Online
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has attacked claims by the Federal Government's top civil servant that changes to industrial relations (IR) laws will have little impact on public servants.
But the CPSU says the Government has already used agencies like Centrelink as a test laboratory for its industrial relations changes to the detriment of employees' bargaining rights.
The union's assistant national secretary, Steven Jones, says public servants will be in the front line of the Government's reforms, with increasing numbers forced to sign up to Australian Workplace Agreements (AWA).
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200510/s1478382.htm   (307 words)

  
 Iraqi Federation of Workers' Trade Unions (IFTU): Community and Public Sector Union (Australia) sends condolences to ...
It was with deep sorrow that I and the CPSU (Community and Public Sector Union) heard of the murder of Hadi Salih.
Not only was the assassination an attack on the trade union movement and a violation of the freedom of association and human rights, but it is a tragedy for his family, comrades and friends.
We can only hope that this will not discourage the many others who are fighting for freedom, justice and the right for workers to unionise and that Hadi Salih's ultimate sacrifice and courage will not have been in vain.
www.iraqitradeunions.org /archives/000157.html   (192 words)

  
 CPSU SPSF Group - Our federal union
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) is a product of the amalgamation of the State Public Services Federation (SPSF) and the Public Sector Union, the former union for federal government employees.
The CPSU is a registered organisation under the Commonwealth Workplace Relations Act.
The PSU (Public Sector Union) Group - the comonwealth public servants union.
www.progressivepsa.org /cpsu.html   (367 words)

  
 ICQ.com Search Results
The homepage of the Australian union which covers employees in banking, investments and insurance.
Public Services International is a trade union federation of over 500 unions public sector unions in over 140 countries.
The Australian Education Union represents teachers and allied educators in public sector schools, TAFE colleges and early childhood centres.
www.icq.com /search/welcome_results.php?q=related:http://www.cpsu.org.au   (205 words)

  
 AWA fears prompt public service lobbying. 03/11/2005. ABC News Online
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) says it is concerned the Federal Government will make individual workplace agreements (AWA) a condition of employment in the public service.
CPSU assistant secretary Stephen Jones says the union's membership is growing in response to the Government's proposed industrial relations changes.
He says thousands of Canberra public servants have signed a petition calling on the Senate to reject the legislation.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200511/s1497171.htm   (284 words)

  
 Telstra - Community and Public Sector Union - Telstra employees want continued CSS access
With the full privatisation of Telstra viewed as likely to compromise the ability of the company’s employees to remain members of CSS super, their unions will ask the Government to support altering the fund’s trust deed to allow their continued contributions.
The issue has emerged as part of negotiations between the Community and Public Sector Union and Telstra for a new enterprise agreement, with the union pointing to the fact that many members had opted to remain in the CSS at the time Telstra’s predecessor company, Telecom Australia was separated from the Australian Public Service.
The union said the CSS scheme had rewarded those who had opted to remain with the fund through its defined benefit arrangements.
www.moneymanagement.com.au /articles/7C/0C02E97C.asp   (274 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Community and Public Sector Union – NSW SPSF Branch
The Public Service Association/Community and Public Sector Unions, Senior Industrial Officer, Steve Turner will talk about the recent pay equity decision that was handed down in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission for librarians employed in parts of the NSW public sector.
Steve Turner is the expert on this historic decision as he is the Unions Industrial Officer who ran the librarians case in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission.
www.uts.edu.au /oth/cpsu/utslibrary.html   (132 words)

  
 Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU - SPSF Group)
The largest and broadest union for Public employees, the CPSU.
A decision by major retailer Spotlight to abandon the use of AWA individual contracts confirms the Howard Government's WorkChoices IR laws are bad for both workers and businesses says the ACTU.
Time with family will be slashed as workers are forced to trade off take home pay, and conditions like public holidays, simply to maintain their jobs.
www.cpsu-spsf.asn.au   (320 words)

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