Paul Oboohov

  • CPSU rank-and-file call for a real union!

    BY ANDREW HALL & PAUL OBOOHOV CANBERRA — Rank-and-file ACT activists in the Community and Public Sector Union grouped around Members First, have issued a call to all CPSU members who want to rebuild a democratic, broad campaigning approach to

  • Ruddock continues persecution of Kayanis

    CANBERRA — Relatives of Shahraz Kayani, who died as a result of setting himself alight on the Parliament House forecourt on April 2, 2001, have been prevented from coming to Australia on the anniversary of his death. On May 27,

  • Canberra unions debate Palestine

    CANBERRA — The May Day meeting of the ACT Trades and Labour Council/Unions ACT (ACT TLC) debated motions on Palestine, in the presence of Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) national secretary Sharan Burrow. ACT TLC

  • Dissolution nears for union branch

    CANBERRA — Left-wing public service unionists in the national capital have been stymied in their attempts to prevent a union restructure which would dissolve the ACT branch of the Community and Public Sector Union. The ACT

  • ALP likely to govern ACT

    CANBERRA — The Labor Party is likely to form a minority government in the ACT following the October 20 election. The ALP polled 42% of the vote while the polled Liberals 31%. The ALP gained a massive swing of 14.1% on the 1998

  • Labor looks like winning ACT elections

    CANBERRA — The October 20 elections in the Australian Capital Territory are being contested by far more than the usual major party candidates. Nurses angry about the meltdown in health, outer suburbanites disgruntled with service

  • Protest supports refugees

    CANBERRA — Protesters gathered outside the Belconnen office of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) on August 20 to call for the freeing of the refugees. Many participants had been shocked by the August

  • Laborites admit error on agency bargaining

    CANBERRA — The Community and Public Sector Union branch conference here on July 26 voted to support centralised bargaining for wages and "core conditions" in the federal public service. It accepted the need for "some flexibility"

  • Blockaders determined to save Badja Forest

    BADJA FOREST — The South East Forest Rescue Squad of about 30 activists is blockading two roads, one of them recently bulldozed, to stop logging in the old-growth Badja Forest wilderness on the escarpment overlooking the NSW south

  • Why public servants should support M1

    Public servants are prime targets for the federal government. In the last decade 110,000 public sector jobs have been lost through cuts to funding, restructuring and the outsourcing and privatisation of government services

  • Inflation rises, how's your income?

    CANBERRA — Inflation figures for the September quarter were recently announced. Included in the figures is the initial impact of the goods and services tax (GST), which the Australian Bureau of Statistics describes as having a

  • Candidate raises outsourcing issues

    CANBERRA — Members First candidate for deputy president of the ACT branch of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), Deborah Lally, is focusing her campaign on the lack of action taken by the ACT and national union