Paul Oboohov

  • DETYA staff reject non-union agreement

    DETYA staff reject non-union agreementCANBERRA — Staff at the federal Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA) have overwhelmingly rejected a draft non-union agreement in a blow to management's attempts to

  • Union members reject undemocratic restructure

    Union members reject undemocratic restructureCANBERRA — Union delegates here have rejected their leaders' attempt to restructure the Community and Public Sector Union. A special conference of the CPSU's ACT branch on March 9

  • International day demands end to Third World debt

    International day demands end to Third World debtCANBERRA — A spirited and noisy group of 100 people braved a cold early morning outside the Treasury building on June 18 to tell the government to drop Third World debt. The

  • ACT Liberals' budget cuts 450 jobs

    CANBERRA — In the ACT budget announced on May 4, Kate Carnell's Liberal government proposed to cut 450 ACT government jobs to save $86 million a year and supposedly eliminate the ACT budget deficit by the end of the 2000-01

  • Former CES workers lose last hope

    On February 26 the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) granted an award to Employment National Administration (ENA) that extinguishes almost all hope of its 912 former Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) workers ever

  • Cops extinguish Tent Embassy fire

    Cops extinguish Tent Embassy fire By Kim Bullimoreand Paul Oboohov CANBERRA — On February 8, elders and supporters from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy took their protest to the lawns of new Parliament House to coincide with the resumption of

  • Conditions cut in DEETYA

    CANBERRA — Following the dismantling of the CES, the staff remaining in the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs voted 87.75% in favour of accepting some loss of conditions in a postal vote concluding on

  • Concert for miners' struggles

    Concert for miners' strugglesCANBERRA — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union held a fundraising concert here on November 29 for the Hunter Valley No. 1 and Gordonstone miners. The miners are in bitter struggles

  • CES staff strike against individual contracts

    CES staff strike against individual contractsCANBERRA — Commonwealth Employment Service workers here struck on the afternoon of November 27 to protest against cuts in working conditions contained in an individual contract.

  • CES staff face sackings and individual contracts

    On December 1, the 50 year-old Commonwealth Employment Service will cease to exist and the Public Employment Placement Enterprise will take over its functions. The 5000 remaining CES workers face the unenviable choice of either

  • The bush meets the struggle

    Music at the Creek — as the November 7-9 Major's Creek Folk Festival is known — has been running for five years. Each year it attracts more musicians and larger audiences to the former gold-mining hamlet about 15 km south of

  • CPSU members rally to defend conditions

    CPSU members rally to defend conditionsCANBERRA — A majority of Community and Public Sector Union members in the ACT last week voted for lunchtime rallies on November 28 to oppose the Howard government's attacks on public