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26 Weeks Paid Parental Leave for Macquarie University General Staff
ACTU “Union Helpline”
ADFA Agreement delivers strong work/life result for Staff
AIRC CERTIFIES NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY AGREEMENT
ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BOARD SLASHED
ANTI-DISCRIMINATION STAFF STRIKE AGAINST CUTS
AT WHAT COST TO THE HUNTER MR HOWARD?
Agriculture Efficiency Gains a Smokescreen
Air Monitoring Dumbed Down in NSW
Apprentices lose in Howard Government’s $60 Million Workchoices Payoff
Apprentices suffer as Howard closes DETNAC - Tebbutt
Blackban of printing and distribution services by cmSolutions staff
Broadscale illegal land clearing set to increase after further job cuts
Business Clean Up Day – Tuesday March 2
CPSU calls on Independents to block Higher Education Bill
CPSU helps East Timorese school
CPSU welcomes possible rethink on Student Unionism Bill
CPSU/PSA pledges to save Newcastle University jobs
CPSU/PSA threatens to close SCU's Coffs Campus because of heat
Canberra threatens jobs in Lismore
Clean Up Australia Day – Public – March 7
Commission result good for NSW Agriculture Staff
Corrective Services breaks Christmas deal
Criminal prosecution bans - the DPP cuts staff and then flies to Europe
Crown Lands Shut Again -- Union Action Spreading
Crown Lands closed again
DET -- bans and limitations to escalate
DET district offices to be all at SEA
DOCS -- plenty of money for another unwanted boss
DPI Public Servants to Protest Tomorrow
DPI members set to take on Carr & Egan
DPI staff to fight for country communities
Director-General announces new Education Regional Directors
Don't Chop Motor Services: PSA
Education Department fined $160,000 for OHS breaches
Education cuts target children with disabilities
Education department to reduce industry training quality controls
Education told to come clean, or …
Environment Protection Job Cuts – Work to Rule
Environment conservation in jeopardy - ADI site symptomatic of wider malaise
Extra OHS & Workers Comp training for Wollongong
FRONTLINE WORKERS WARN OF SERVICE CUTS IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PLAN
Family Picnic Day in Wagga Wagga
Federal award modernisation:- “Don't cut University staff award standards”.
Fight for Yanco Goes to Henty
Fisheries Officers re-evaluations lead to pay rises
Gender Equality set to reverse
General Staff Union condemns anti-democratic, anti-education IR changes
General staff union at Southern Cross welcomes backdown
Government Cuts Undermine Services says Cahill
Hunter TAFE staff rally - Friday
Incredible and incredulous:- Brogden plans to cut DOCS funds
Industrial Action Planned Against Della Bosca’s Fire Sale
Interim 4% pay offer at Southern Cross University
International union backs fight against New South Wales power sell-off
It’s war over school staff pay
Job Cuts Threaten Flood Controls
Job cuts threaten school Arts Program
Job cuts – Prison Officers walk out
Jobs Under Threat From Federal Government VSU Push
Jobs threatened with extinction at Australian Museum
Juvenile Justice Staff Assaulted - Staff Walk Out
KARIONG SHOULD STAY WITH JUVENILE JUSTICE
Leeton closes down to attend rally over Yanco losses
Media Release: Education told to come clean or . . .
Media release: Union rejects education job cuts
Memo Macquarie Street: What Does "Back Office" Really Mean?
Merry Christmas for General Staff at Macquarie Uni
More Chiefs, and a lot less Indians
More than 50,000 public sector workers set to lose entitlements
Murwillumbah parole office in limbo as Department refuses to talk
NSW Government slashes waste jobs and Waste Fund money
NSW Public sector is disappearing fast
NSW community languages – Education Minister’s awards under threat
National Parks crisis -- Sydney Harbour symptomatic of state-wide malaise
New Lismore office brings practical benefits
New coal-fired power station exposes cut-backs in environmental service
Newcastle Uni agreement delivers strong work/life balance
Newcastle University staff say deficit size does matter
Nursing Staff & Students Protest Faculty Closure
OHS problems at Goulburn Courthouse before the Industrial Commission on Monday
Office of Industrial Relations Staff to Strike
Opposition Claims Fuel Firefighter Anger
PARKLEA GAOL OUT FOR FURTHER 24 HOURS
PM’S IR PACKAGE CONFIRMS CHANGES WILL LEAVE WORKERS WORSE OFF
PSA BANS NSW CABINET
PSA Members Welcome Iemma’s Public Service Pledge
PSA Members at Zoo to walk off the job in support of sacked colleague
PSA Wins Reprieve for Research Stations
PSA Women's Conference- Keynote speakers
PSA campaign to encourage and support indigenous members
PSA condemns further Environment job cuts to Dubbo
PSA donates $50,000 to tsunami rebuilding
PSA launches "Public Interest" Campaign
PSA members take the message to Country Labor
PSA says NO to Forests NSW corporatisation
PSA slams Environment Conservation job cuts
PSA supports decision to keep West Wyalong Motor Registry open
PSA targets rural services crisis
PSA welcomes Labor’s public prison commitment
Parramatta to lose driving test facility within weeks
Petitioners ask Refshauge to give Schools Spectacular a 21st birthday
Premier must intervene on cuts to Child Care Inspectors
Prison security - Humpherson talking twaddle
Prisons – the Way Forward?
Prosecutors’ bans mean no action on child sexual assaults & proceeds of crime
Public Prosecutors to stop work tomorrow
Public Services and Job Cuts Rally
RTA to cut 1000 jobs
Radio Ads Warn of Service Cuts
Rally to protect public sector jobs and services tomorrow
Recruiting could win you a mountain retreat holiday
Rockin’ For Rights Peformers
Rostering Issues at the Long Bay Gaol Complex
SCU Staff Lodge Ground Breaking Green Pay Claim
SOUTH COAST LABOUR COUNCIL 75TH ANNIVERSARY
Safety & rehabilitation programs in Schools and TAFE Colleges under threat
Save Public Services Rally Tomorrow
School staff accept pay increases
Southern Cross Agreement Reached
Southern Cross staff go over Vice Chancellor’s head
Sport & Rec Program Officers to strike
Stabbed DOCS Case Worker wins case against Department
Staff in government run disability services to strike for 24 hours
Stop the attack on battlers
Strike @ Southern Cross University on Friday
Strike over Commerce cuts plans
Student/Staff “Save Our Uni” Rally
Sue Walsh, PSA President, to Jan McClelland, DG of DET
Sydney Institute of TAFE management review
TAFE & DET workers take the cuts to ALP Conference tomorrow
TAFE jobs slashed in Hunter
TAFE staff say NO to Federal Government's Individual Contracts
Taronga Zoo walkout triggered by medical retirement dispute
Tear Up Your AWA Day at Sydney University
The 2006 Census – Workers Wanted
The Minister for Education & Training’s Media Release
The Minister for education & Training's media release on TAFE/DET cuts
UNE staff express ‘no confidence’ in Chancellor
UNION PAY RISE SHOULD BE SHARED BY ALL
UNIVERSITY STAFF WELCOME END OF HOWARD ERA AWAs
UNSW to slash up to 600 staff
UNSW told to consult with Unions on Job Cuts
UTS and CPSU set new benchmarks for university bargaining
UWS workers slugged for going to work
Union Bans at State Water
Union applauds Federal Government backdown
Union rejects education job cuts
Union welcomes job cuts turnaround
Union's National Secretary to visit Lismore
Unions refer “University Workplace Relations Requirements” to the ILO
Universities Strike, Pickets & Rallies – October 16
University Employers Seeking to Slash Award Safety Net
University General Staff Endorse 9% National Pay Claim
University General Staff step up action over Abbott/Nelson plan
University Services to Suffer Under Federal Takeover
University of Sydney staff to tear up AWAs
Where's Ian Causley MP on VSU?
Will the Department of Education pay on time?
Women to bear the brunt of 29,000 jobs cut under Liberals
Women’s Rights at Work – Worth Fighting For
Zoo bans start on Anzac Day

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100% Employee Entitlements Petition
2003 PSA Annual Conference Reports
2005 PSA WALL PLANNER
2006 campaign against Workchoices
2008 PSA Jean Arnot Award
75 Years of Women’s Council - Study Grant offered
9 Myths of Modern Unionism - John Robertson at ALP Conference
ACTU Leaflets & Factsheets, June 2007
ACTU Submission to National Review of OHS Laws
ACTU proposal for a fair IR system -- Combet speech
ACTU's Future Strategy
ACTU’S Tullamarine Freeway Billboard
AG's web section being launched today
ALP Public Sector Policy released
ANNUAL LEAVE LOADING WIN AT UWS
APPEAL FOR BEN McDONNELL’S FAMILY
AVOs report -- comments invited
Aboriginal officers in Police get 35 hr week & more
Agriculture told to talk over relocations and job cuts
Annual Conference Constituencies 2007
Annual Women’s Conference
BANS ON AGENCY STAFF IN DADHC LIFTED
BUDGET CUTS CAMPAIGN & BUDGET COMMENT
Ban on Helicopter Flights
Bans lifted, work to rule stays
Bans re School Support Officer Grade One Positions
Bathurst Stop Electricity Sell-Off Meeting
Bob Carr Praises Public Sector Workers
CHANTS FOR “YOUR RIGHTS AT WORK” RALLIES, ETC
CPSU (SPSF Group NSW Branch) Accounts 2005
CPSU (SPSF Group NSW Branch) Accounts 2006
CPSU (SPSF Group) NSW Branch Accounts 2007
CPSU (our federal union) annual accounts
CPSU Organiser positions
CPSU WORK OVERLOAD KIT
CPSU calls for more money for higher education
CPSU makes submission to the Senate Inquiry on Higher Education Funding
CPSU submission to the Senate Inquiry into Higher Education Amendments
CPSU's national Bullying Kit
Candidates invited to Mollymook’s public forum on WorkChoices
Charles Sturt flyer
Child protection law amendments
Claim for new Prison Officers Award
Close the Gap Day - films
Commerce Flexible Hours Agreement to go to ballot of members.
Community & Public Sector Union (SPSF Group) NSW Branch accounts 2003-2004
Community rally against the power sell-off at Costa's office, Friday 18th
Computer Deals
Constituencies for PSA Annual Conference 2008
Corporate payouts -- you pay for them
Corrective Services wants major changes to prison officer work
Corrective Services – Report to Central Council February 9
Court Officers Vocational Advisory Group being formed
Cowra Abattoir – sackings and re-hire legal
Cyclone Larry Relief Fund – let’s dig deep
DADHC DISABILITY SERVICES DISPUTE -- UPDATE 9 NOVEMBER
DADHC Delegates
DADHC INDUSTRIAL ACTION POSTPONED
DADHC dispute report – November 22
DADHC – BANS ON AGENCY STAFF
DADHC: Rates of pay for casual and temporary employees
DET agrees to develop bullying & harassment policy
DISABILITY SERVICES STRIKE NOVEMBER 16-17
Deadly loads on our roads
Delta Electricity Award
Deparmental rearrangements, April 2003
Departments, agencies, etc, and their Ministers
Developments on the School Support Staff pay dispute
Disabilities Services get an extra $1.3 billion
ENROLMENT FOR FEDERAL ELECTIONS
ERARING ENERGY -- 4.5% + 4.5%
Easter Thursday additional half day flex leave
Electricity Anti-Privatisation Rally outside ALP Conference, May 3
Equal treatment for asbestos victims -- petition
Executives - the more you pay the less you get
FEEDBACK TO DET/TAFE & PSA
Federal Union (CPSU) Elections
First State Super seminars for FSS members
For 2c per hour lose $90 per week – Spotlight “Agreements”
Funding of Women’s Projects
GATS Senate Inquiry
Getting a vote? Howard Government makes it harder.
Government backtracks on Ministers’ Staff
Granville TAFE rally yesterday
Group Accident Insurance for PSA members' families
Help out for a few hours on Super Saturday 16 August
Howard cuts $60 from NSW apprenticeship training
IT'S TAX TIME - ITEMS FROM THE TAX OFFICE
Iemma announces Upper House Inquiry into Work Choices
Industrial Officer
Industrial Relations Change – Ministers Meeting 25 February
International Day of Mourning, - Sydney Service, April 28
International Women’s Day 12 March 2005
Joint meetings, rallies, etc with teachers
July 30 Day of Action against the Iemma/Costa pay policy
July 30 Day of Action in Wollongong
July 30 details as at 28 July
Labor Council's Union Activists Register
Labor's industrial relations policy
Laboratory Technical Officer needed – designing a TAFE Course
LabourStart TV - latest 5 items
Leave Arrangements - ACTU Sky Channel Meetings on 30 November
Leave Arrangements for Unions NSW Delegates Meetings
Listen to the PSA’s “Public Interest” radio advertisement
Local Court delegates ban use of private vehicles
MEMBERS AND DELEGATES TRAINING PROGRAM: AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2008
Manual Handling Conference, 1 - Day Conference - 27 May 2008
Manual Handling Conference, 1 - Day Conference - 28 May 2008
Matrix of Duties in DADHC’s Group Homes
Maxine McKew & Penny Wong head 2007 PSA Women’s Conference line-up
Maxine McKew - profile
Meeting with DET management, June 30
Melburnians experience privatised power's emergency arrangements
Minimum Wage undermined with loopholes
NEW OHS TRAINING COURSE
NSW COALITION'S SHADOW CABINET
NSW Cabinet -- List of Ministers 19 January 2005
NSW LABOR GOVERNMENT MINISTERS, 2 APRIL 2003
NSW Public Sector Workforce Profile 2005
New England TAFE Institute - rumours & fact
New England Tafe NSW Investigation Report
New Job Cuts = Service Cuts advertisement
New PSA fee rule lowers some fee rates
New University of New England Office For PSA/CPSU Members & Staff
Newcastle Forum - Stop the Power Sell Off
Nomination Forms for Annual Conference 2007
Nomination Forms for Annual Conference 2008
Northern Sydney TAFE Education Support Review – Pie in the Sky at Ryde
OH&S Training for Managers and Supervisors, January-June 2004
OHS DELEGATES SURVEY BY ACTU
Orange Campus transfer to Charles Sturt University
Our Rights At Work Community Forums – South Coast
PAY RISE POLICY ANNOUNCED IN THE BUDGET
PETITION ON MINIMUM WAGE FIXING
POVB Executive Response to “Way Forward” proposal
POVB Legal Fund gets Tax Exemption
POVB’s JOHN CAMPBELL STEPS DOWN
POVB’s new News Service
PSA & UNIONS NSW JOB CUTS = SERVICE CUTS RALLY
PSA ANNUAL WOMEN’S CONFERENCE - INVITATION
PSA Activist Register
PSA Annual Conference 2005
PSA Annual Women's Conference 2006
PSA BACKS “SAVE MEDIBANK" CAMPAIGN
PSA DELEGATE'S HANDBOOK
PSA EXECUTIVE STRENGTHENS JOBS CAMPAIGN
PSA Job Cuts Campaign – Country Briefings
PSA OHS Training
PSA Offices and Staff working on DADHC matters
PSA PAY CASE
PSA PUBLIC SECTOR PAY CASE
PSA Public Sector Pay Case
PSA REGIONAL OFFICES – CHRISTMAS-NEW YEAR BREAK
PSA Rally, Farrer Place, 12.30 Wednesday, 24 September
PSA Submission on Lifelong Learning Version 2
PSA Submission to Senate Inquiry into Industrial Relations changes
PSA Survey 2007
PSA Survey – Balancing Work & Carers’ Responsibilities
PSA TV Advertisement about Job Cuts
PSA University Undergraduate Scholarship
PSA Wagga Wagga on the move
PSA Women’s 2007 Wallplanner available
PSA Women’s 2007 Wallplanner now available
PSA awards online
PSA response to "TAFE NSW Doing Business in the 21st Century"
PSA retains coverage of new correctional centres
PSA submission on the Lifelong learning proposal
PSA submission to parental leave inquiry
PSA survey on bullying/harassment in DET
PSA to make submission to parental leave inquiry
PSA training opportunities – Lismore in October
PSA/Unions NSW Survey on Injured Workers’ Needs for Worker Comp
PSA/WorkCover OH&S Training Programs January – March 2005
PUBLIC SECTOR PAY BALLOT – A HUGE YES!
PUBLIC SECTOR PAY CASE - PREMIER’S DEPARTMENT CIRCULAR
PUBLIC SECTOR PAY CASE – THE OFFER
PUBLIC SECTOR PAY CASE – UPDATE
PUBLIC SERVICE PAY CASE -- MAJOR CASE CONFERENCE
Parklea dispute – acting-up direction
Parklea prison officers stay out – request state-wide support
Pay calculator – comparing AWA offers with award rates
Penalty Rates & Shift Allowances Axed Using Howard’s Laws
Petition calling for Plebiscite on Proposed Full Privatisation of Telstra
Petition: Job Cuts = Service Cuts
Petition: Stop the Sell-Off of the Power Industry
Planning the July 30 Day of Action against Iemma's pay cuts
Position Vacant: Industrial Officer (Occupational Health & Safety)
Pregnancy & Work book now on Workcover site
Premier Iemma’s Audit & Job Cuts Plans
Prison Officer back-pay delay
Prison Officers Vocational Branch (POVB) Executive Elections 2007-2009
Prison Officers Vocational Branch (POVB) Executive Elections for 2005-2007
Prison Officers on their bikes to the 'Gong
Proposed Aboriginal Education Assistants (AEAs) Award
Psychologists Award Claim
Psychologists’ Proposed Award
Public Sector Delegates Resolution
Public Sector Pay Case
Public Sector Salaries Award made today
Public Sector Workers Reject Premier’s Pay Cut as Threat to Public Services
Public Service Psychologists – Claim for a New Award
Queanbeyan public meeting: How will NSW secure our energy needs?
RALLY AGAINST REGIONAL CUTBACKS
Radio LabourStart Expands!
Recycled computers for community groups & disadvantaged
Results of the PSA’s “Public Interest” research
SALARY PACKAGING – REMOVAL OF 50% LIMIT
SAVE THE WOLVES RALLY – FRIDAY
SNOWY ELECTRICITY & WATER SALE OFF
Schools Spectacular Win -- Petition Withdrawn
Secure Employment Test Case - Decision handed down
Senator Penny Wong - profile
Sharing office with an old mate - SGE Credit Union
Sign the ACTU's petition on national OHS laws and your rights
Sky Channel IR Broadcast July 1
Small Equipment Grants for Volunteer Organisations
Sound Reporters Award
State Forest Plantations – proposals on their future
Staying in First State Super
Stop the Power Sell Off campaign expands its lobby list
Stop the Sell-Off campaign lobbying push
Strike threat lifted – DADHC gives undertakings
Sunday April 22 “Rockin For Rights” Concert & March
Superannuation changes announced in Federal Budget
Support the staff at State Library of Victoria
Sydney University - What is really going on?
TAFE Conditions of Employment Award 2005
TAFE-DET WORKING PARTY/DELEGATION
TAFE/DET Campaign Contacts
TAFE/DET RESTRUCTURE
TAFE/DET: - Briefing of Labor Members of Parliament
TAFE/DET: - Some Members do support us
TAFE’s Christmas & New Year Leave Arrangements
THE WAY FORWARD
TRANSGRID AWARD GIVES 5% + 4.5%
Tafe New England Institute Investigation Report
Teachers lodge dispute over TAFE/DET
Test Prison Officers Index
The Rights @ Work Bus – South Coast/Monaro Trip
The pay offer- examples of proposed rates.
Transgrid fight goes on
Transport Arrangements for Blacktown, June 28
UNRECOGNISED WORK SURVEY
UNSW (General Staff) Enterprise Agreement - Final Draft
Union support of Anti-Poverty Week and Make Poverty History
Unions NSW Delegate Meetings, May 15-19
Unions NSW leaflet on national OHS harmonisation
Unions NSW on model national OHS laws (i.e. harmonisation)
Unions appeal for tsunami victims
Unions/Government Bullying Taskforce
University of NSW agreement improves mat leave, job security
University of Western Sydney Week of Rallies
Update on DADHC Disability Service industrial action
Update on East Timor
Update on flexi dispute in Attorney General’s Department
Venues for November 30 Day of Action
Vice chancellors on the proposed higher education changes
WE WANT YOU BACK – FEES AMNESTY
WOMEN @ WORK MAGAZINE
WOMEN'S COUNCIL ELECTIONS
We want you to vote – check your enrolment
Where has the Public Sector gone?
Women's Council 2008 elections: Nomination Form
WomensCouncil2006
Womenspeak’s Survey of Childcare in Australia
Women’s Conference Program 2007
Workers Health Centre wants part-time OHS person
World Bank highlights positive role of Unions
YOUR POSTAL ADDRESS – IS IT RIGHT?
Zoo fundraiser for new Asian Elephant area
test
“Carers Fact Sheet” – new PSA publication
“No Go Wallgrove” – Transgrid Update