Education

Workers rally to protect the future for our education system

CPSU's school members will be taking protected industrial action on Valentines Day and will stop work this Thursday with their AEU colleagues.

Stand up for education support staff, and our teachers, as they take a stand to protect the future for our education system.

ALL CPSU members can show their support for our Ed-Support colleagues and join us at lunchtime and tell Ted to show some heart.

ED SUPPORT NEWS ..... The State Government is still refusing to talk to ES unions about a decent wages agreement and maintains that ES staff ONLY deserve a 2.5% wage increase.  In response, ES unions are maintaining bans and will be increasing action in schools in Term 4.   This will include stop-work action.

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FROM THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER 2012.

Fair Work Sets Timeline for Job Cuts Talks
Last week CPSU called on Education to provide full information about their proposed job cuts to its workforce and CPSU was couriered documents from DEECD at 5pm on Friday 17 August following CPSU lodging a dispute with Fair Work.  Their documents contained a proposed organisational chart which included 737 employees characterised as “roles removed” from across DEECD.

DEECD Refuse to Release Full Details of New Staff Structure
Late Tuesday 14 August DEECD released information about a proposed restructure but refused to provide its workforce and CPSU with its overall state-wide proposal. Instead, employees were given organisational diagrams relating only to their particular area. CPSU received no organisational charts at all.

CPSU Believes up to 950 to Face Axe - Union Totally Opposes – Goes to Tribunal

The Baillieu Government is refusing to provide information about proposed job cuts in the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD)  to its workforce and relevant union, the Community and Public Sector Union.

Unauthorised Deductions Taken over Holiday Period

Check your holiday pays for unauthorised LSL payments and/or public holiday deductions!

CPSU has had members report that they have had unauthorised long service leave (LSL) payments over the holiday period.

Intransigence Continues to Hinder Negotiation Process

CPSU Representatives met again with AMES HR last week in an attempt to progress negotiations however the games continued when AMES presented a hardcopy Draft Agreement (EBA) document which was completely re-written and untracked.

As you can imagine, changes made to an extensive document are incredibly difficult to find, especially when in hardcopy.

Employees on fixed term contracts should not be disadvantaged!

Education Support Staff - Equal Partners in Education
CPSU launched its National Recognition program for Education Support staff back in 2001 in order to celebrate the contribution of non-teaching staff in public schools across the country.