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Many parts of NSW and the ACT remain subjected to extreme heat conditions and covered by a blanket of toxic smoke this afternoon. The Air Quality Index, or AQI, used by governments to communicate with the public on how polluted the air is, or forecast to become. Today has seen the worst ever recorded AQI measurements across Sydney and many of

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It’s time to vote Following over 500 days of bargaining, it is time for you to vote on the new proposed Telstra enterprise agreement. CEPU members will be well aware that negotiations for this new enterprise agreement have not been easy.  With one of Australia’s largest job purges in corprorate history as the backdrop to negotiations, Telstra management have dug

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Talks continued with the Unions’ Single Bargaining Unit (SBU) and Telstra meeting this week to continue negotiations for a new agreement. Over to you Subject to a final legal review of the proposed Agreement, the SBU has today indicated it would not oppose Telstra putting their most recent offer to a vote of employees. It is the view of the

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Overview The CEPU NSW Postal & Telecommunications Branch is the major trade Union representing communication workers across NSW and the ACT. The Branch is inviting candidates to make application to participate in an organising development and a traineeship for an initial period of 12 months. On successful completion, trainees will graduate the ACTU’s structured Organising Works training program with a

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Talks continued with the Unions’ Single Bargaining Unit (SBU) and Telstra meeting this week to continue negotiations for a new agreement. Significant progress was made by the parties towards a final position during this week’s meeting. Clause 45 For the sake of continuity and given we are so close to mutually agreeing to conclude bargaining, we will continue to refer

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Talks continued with the Unions’ Single Bargaining Unit (SBU) and Telstra meeting this week to continue negotiations. Much of the focus was on Telstra’s resurrection of Clause 45 and the SBU’s concerns over its possible application. Clause 45 The SBU had, at the last meeting, committed to seeking external expert advice on the application of Clause 45 and the possibility of

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Talks continued with the Unions’ Single Bargaining Unit (SBU) and Telstra meeting this week. A meeting earlier this week was cut short and resumed yesterday due to an unforeseen urgent matter being heard in the Fair Work Commission. Conversion of casual to permanent employment We have reached agreement on many aspects of this new clause, which will provide a process

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Tell them it isn’t good enough. Vote NO. Send them back to the table.  JOB SECURITY AT RISK During bargaining, your Union advanced a claim to introduce a clause which would limit Visionstream’s ability to use contractors to perform the work ordinarily undertaken by permanent employees. Visionstream agreed to this claim, only to back-flip on the deal six weeks later.

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The Australian Electoral Commission has today declared the following members elected in this year’s CEPU Communications Division (National) election: National Divisional President –Shane Murphy National Divisional Secretary – Greg Rayner National Divisional Assistant Secretary (Postal) –Nicole Robinson National Divisional Assistant Secretary (Telecommunications) –James Perkins National Divisional Vice President – Bernie Clarke National Divisional Vice President Affirmative Action – Elly Huttly Divisional

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Talks are continuing with the combined Unions’ Single Bargaining Unit (SBU) and Telstra meeting today, where it was promised they would be in a position to respond to the SBU’s counter-offer. Redundancy, transfer of employment and “Clause 45” Prior to getting in to pay related matters, Telstra raised an issue which they say has become critical to them and to

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