| Our VPSA2009 Claims Have Now Been Served on State Gov’t CPSU has written to Premier John Brumby with an outline of the claims and issues union members seek to negotiate into our next Victorian Public Service Agreement due in early 2009. CPSU will now be developing broad clauses to support our claims and conducting preliminary meetings with Workforce Victoria, the State Government’s lead organisation for the bargaining.
How CPSU negotiates Agreements is regulated by the Workplace Relations Act 1996 and its Regulations 2006.
With Labor forming Government following last year’s Federal election, industrial relations laws are currently in a transitional phase.
Federal Labor has already made some changes to Work Choices.
Labor’s changes so far provide for:
- No more AWA’s
- ‘No disadvantage test’ reintroduced requiring agreements to be assessed against award
- Option to ‘vary/extend’ Certified Agreement (avoid Work Choices)
New comprehensive IR laws may not apply in full until mid 2010 (subject to passage through the Federal Parliament) and during the transition to Labor’s new national IR laws the Work Choices bargaining system still applies to CPSU.
Your Pay….Your Conditions…Your Future! These 3 critical issues and more are up for re-negotiation at the end of this year. CPSU has negotiated collective public service wide comprehensive Agreements since the election of the Bracks Labor Government in late 1999, to re-build core service wide employment condition standards as well as introduce new Career [classification(s)] Structures. These union Service wide Agreements have set new standards of employment across ALL government Departments and buried the divisive and inferior individual workplace agreements (AWA’s) pursued throughout the 90’s by the previous Kennett government. Our current Agreement expires on 1 March next year and CPSU is preparing to negotiate improved pay and conditions for your future. Click here to view/print a formatted version for display;
http://www.cpsuvic.org/public_docs/OPEN-10-1009-VPSA09-YOURSAYYOURPAY.pdf CPSU MEMBERSHIP IS PROTECTION FOR YOUR MOST IMPORTANT ASSET. YOUR JOB. Speak to a colleague today about the benefits of CPSU membership and have them contribute to our successes rather than just enjoying the benefits. VPS - AGREEMENT - 2009 is coming !!!!!!!!!!! To view the movie trailer click here;
http://www.cpsuvic.org/static-pages/vpsa09.html TOGETHER WE DO BETTER! http://www.cpsuvic.org/public_docs/Work-Can-Change-membership-flyer.pdf
http://www.cpsuvic.org/public_docs/memform.pdf KAREN BATT
CPSU Victorian Branch Secretary | 
