CPSU at UNE

Bargaining for a separate General Staff and ELC agreement is progressing well, and your CPSU EB team feel that we are close to finalising the best possible agreement for you. We’ve succeeded in maintaining existing excellent conditions such as Uncapped Sick Leave, 5 Weeks Annual Leave, and Superannuation. We’ve also secured some massive improvements including accrual of Time Off In Lieu at overtime rates, the first ever General Staff Workloads clause, better conditions for Fixed Term Staff, a mechanism for review of General Staff Classifications, and improved Union Rights. Your EB team yesterday responded to the University’s “final offer” package, and pending their response on a number of outstanding issues, we should have a final agreement to present to you for endorsement soon.

This Tuesday CPSU will be hosting a General Staff Forum (details below). This is your chance as a member to get the facts on enterprise bargaining at UNE, and issues which will affect you in your workplace. We’d like to see as many of you there as possible to show your support. If you have friends or colleagues who are General Staff, but not members of the CPSU bring them along too!

CPSU General Staff Forum

Where: Education Lecture Theatre 133, Education Building

As per our resourcing agreement for Enterprise Bargaining, CPSU have requested and gained approval for part of this meeting to be held in paid work time.

Therefore (should it need to), the meeting will run from 1-2:30pm, with the last half hour to be covered by the above arrangement.

To access this extra half an hour of time, you will need to ask your supervisor’s permission. If you do not have permission, then you will only be able to stay for as much of the meeting as falls in your lunch break (please don’t let this stop you from coming!).

As we have a lot of important information to cover (and we don’t want you to miss it), I would suggest you approach you supervisor prior to leaving for the meeting so that you know that you have permission to stay if the meeting does run over the initial hour.

Get involved: Print copies of the latest Member Bulletin to put up in your tea room, and start a conversation in your workplace about the achievements your Union is making in securing rights and conditions for General Staff at UNE. Many hands make light work, so if we all pitch in there will be no stopping us!

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