Chris Slee

  • CPSU leaders accept ATO deal

    CPSU leaders accept ATO dealThe tax section council of the Community and Public Sector Union has voted to recommend acceptance of Australian Taxation Office (ATO) management's latest agency agreement offer. Section secretary Shane

  • ATO offers revised agreement

    ATO offers revised agreementFollowing the rejection of a proposed agreement in a staff vote, the Australian Taxation Office management has offered a few concessions in an attempt to get a revised agreement approved. At first,

  • Tax workers reject non-union agreement

    Australian Taxation Office workers have rejected an attempt by management to push through a non-union agency agreement. Some 62% of general employees, (those in the lowest seven levels of the public service

  • Tax office seeks non-union agreement

    Tax office seeks non-union agreementMELBOURNE — Australian Taxation Office managers are conducting a staff vote on a non-union certified agreement. The proposed agreement includes provisions that will make it easier to sack

  • Tax office sackings defeated

    Managers in the Individual Non-Business Taxes (INB) section of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) have announced that they will not go ahead with plans for compulsory redundancies. The plans have been hanging over

  • Telstra unfair dismissal case adjourned

    Telstra unfair dismissal case adjournedMELBOURNE — The Industrial Relations Commission hearing of the unfair dismissal case of Mervyn Vogt has been adjourned to April 14. Vogt, a Community and Public Sector Union delegate at

  • IRC delays tax sackings

    MELBOURNE — The Industrial Relations Commission has granted a reprieve to a group of workers in the Individual Non-Business Taxes section of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) threatened with compulsory redundancy. At an IRC

  • Exposing the myth that migrants take 'our' jobs

    Exposing the myth that migrants take 'our' jobsThe idea that immigration contributes to unemployment is very widespread. Pauline Hanson blames migrants for unemployment (along with crime, drugs, disease and just about every

  • Tax Office workers protest

    Tax Office workers protestMembers of the Community and Public Sector Union employed by the Australian Taxation Office have completed two weeks of rolling stoppages to protest management's plans to sack up to 50 workers in the

  • Tax management aims to cut conditions

    Tax management aims to cut conditionsAustralian Taxation Office (ATO) management has begun an attack on both the working conditions of its employees and their right to union representation. Management's approach to a new

  • Victorian CPSU leader opposes strike action

    Victorian CPSU leader opposes strike actionMELBOURNE — Sue Mountford, secretary of the Victorian branch of the Community and Public Sector Union, argued against setting a date for strike action in support of the union's

  • Tax Management announces closures

    Tax Management announces closuresAustralian Taxation Office management has announced plans to close the Chatswood office in 1997, and the Bankstown and Cheltenham offices in 1998, with more closures likely to follow. The closures