University of Technology CPSU supporting the picket at University of Sydney this morning

A number of staff including Max and I have joined the picket lines at the University of Sydney if you have photos to add please send them to me everyone.

Dear Michael - An open letter to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Sydney

The University of Sydney CPSU now on Youtube

They are doing some good work on You Tube.

Published on Mar 10, 2013

Email - combineduniversity@gmail.com
Facebook - University workers and students assemblyhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Univer...

Part I: What we do, our conditions at work, change for the worse.
Part II: Contract, precarity and the future
Staff/Student Resource: (a shorter version combining both of these is now on youtube too)

Let's Work Together To Save Sydney Uni

Let's Work Together To Save Sydney Uni

Time for solidarity across the University Sector

http://psa.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Strike-26-27-March-A5.pdf

Please share the news about the stand the University of Sydney CPSU/PSA Professional staff are taking.

CPSU members at the University of Sydney are taking 48 hour industrial action on 26 and 27 March from 7 am in support of their claim for an improved enterprise agreement and better outcomes for professional staff.

Bargaining Report Number 1 March 2013

CPSU members at a protest rally in Sydney, in 2005 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

BargainingReport Number 1 March 2013

UTS Listening

The current Support Staff Agreement will expire on 30th June 2013. This means that your pay and working conditions are up for negotiation.

It is vitally important that all UTS-CPSU members involve themselves in this process. We need to know from you what you want to see in the new agreement.

We would like all members to have some input into the new agreement. After all, this is the agreement you will be making with the university for the next few years. If you think the current agreement can be improved, you must let us know.

As such the CPSU has scheduled workplace “Listenings” on

Your UTS Branch Contacts

Branch President

Bill White 9514 1017

William.White@uts.edu.au

Vice Presidents

Rosa Bow 9514 9850

Monday 18th March.

Monday 11th March

and

Rosa.Bow@uts.edu.au 

Cameron Paton 9514 2333 The feedback we receive from the Listenings will inform the development of our claims for Enterprise Bargaining.

Cameron.Paton@uts.edu.au

The meeting will be for one hour during lunch.

Branch Secretary

The following three questions will guide each listening:

Greg Hampshire 9514 3307

1. What are the three conditions of employment you value most working at the

Greg.Hampshire@uts.edu.au

University?

Assistant Secretary

2. How do you think you could be better recognised and rewarded for your work at your

Max Callaghan 9514 9928 University? Max.Callaghan@uts.edu.au 

3. What do you want your University to look like in five years?

Women’s Officer

Fleur Sargent 9514 7477

Monday 11th March 12:30 – 1:30 Harry Heath Room (

CB02.03)

Fleur.Sargent@uts.edu.au

Monday 18th March 12:30 – 1:30 Harry Heath Room (

CB02.03)

Environmental Health & Safety Officer

Richard Turnell 9514 2560

Please RSVP to Nathan Bradshaw (nbradshaw@psa.asn.au)

Richard.Turnell@uts.edu.au

Membership Officer

Zac Illingworth 9514 2222

Zac.Illingworth@uts.edu.au

JOIN THE CPSU TODAY at

Indigenous Officer

Lori Parish 9514 1913 https://membership.psa.asn.au/join/

Lori.Parish@uts.edu.au

BULLIES BEWARE!

BULLIES BEWARE!

Workers Compensation Insurance. Free only for CPSU/PSA members.

Workers Compensation Insurance. Free only for CPSU/PSA members.

Mar 1, 2013

CPSU/PSA members at the University of Sydney to STRIKE

The CPSU held a members’ meeting on 27 February at Camperdown Campus. Members from four other campuses also connected to the meeting via teleconference. At the meeting the following motion was passed unanimously.

      “That the meeting of CPSU Members on 27 February 2013:

–      notes the report of the Bargaining Team regarding the current and ongoing impediments to progressing bargaining

–      calls a 24 hour strike on Thursday 7th March 2013 in support of the CPSU’s claims in bargaining

–      calls for a members meeting on Thursday 14th March 2013 in order to receive a report from the Bargaining Team on the progress towards reaching agreement with the University following action on March 7^th.”

CPSU members do not take this action lightly but feel they have little choice considering the Universities attitude at the bargaining table.

Under the Universities draft Enterprise Agreement professional staff face the following:

• a 60% reduction in sick leave entitlements

• a real threat to job security

• far inferior redundancy entitlements than academic staff

• and many more attacks on the conditions that we have fought for and won

To make things worse, whilst the University attacks our conditions they expect staff to accept a 2% per annum payrise. A cut in wages in real terms.

CPSU members demand the University reconsider their position.

For more information contact:

CPSU Branch President Grant Wheeler 0434 367 472 grant.wheeler@sydney.edu.au

CPSU Organiser Graydon Plumridge 9248 3330 gplumridge@psa.asn.au