Paul Oboohov

  • Democratic Socialists launch ACT election campaign

    Democratic Socialists launch ACT election campaignCANBERRA — The Democratic Socialist campaign for the ACT elections in February was launched on October 24. The audience of 40 also celebrated the official registration of the

  • Individual contracts for CES

    Individual contracts for CESCANBERRA — The Public Employment Placement Enterprise (the corporatised successor to the Commonwealth Employment Service) is planning individual contracts for all former public servants as they

  • CES workers stampede Service Delivery Agency

    CANBERRA—A sign of the disaster unfolding in the Australian Public Service is the recent stampede of 4000 Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) workers — half the workforce — to apply for jobs in the Service Delivery Agency

  • CES to go: lessons of a shambles

    The leadership of the Community and Public Sector Union and its new section council covering the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA) have abandoned any pretence of a campaign to

  • Public sector union leadership capitulates

    Progressive candidates from the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs did well in the recent Community and Public Sector Union national elections. In the national office of DEETYA, however, progressive

  • ACT CPSU elections: Garvan loses to ALP

    CANBERRA — In an upset, Cath Garvan — formerly of the PSU Challenge group but running as part of the "Team ACT" — has lost the Community and Public Sector Union ACT branch secretary position to an ALP identity, Simon Jarman,

  • Pressure grows over CES/DSS

    Pressure grows over CES/DSSCommunity and Public Sector Union members in the Commonwealth Employment Service have increased pressure on the federal government to stop corporatisation of the CES. The corporatisation would remove

  • CES/DSS industrial action begins

    Community and Public Sector Union members in the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs/Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) and Department of Social Security (DSS) offices around the country

  • CPSU DEETYA national delegates carry on retreating

    One September 25 the National Delegates Committee (NDC) in the Department of Employment, Education and Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA) met in teleconference to finalise their log of claims prior to a membership vote beginning

  • CPSU delegates dodge vital issues on CES

    MELBOURNE — Last week, the National Delegates' Committee of the Community and Public Sector Union in the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs met to discuss its response to the proposal by the Howard

  • Unionists discuss attacks on the CES

    CANBERRA — A series of meetings of Community and Public Sector Union members in the national office of the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs last week discussed the federal government's attack on the

  • Massive cuts and outsourcing planned for CES

    Massive cuts and outsourcing planned for CESCANBERRA — Massive cuts to the CES are planned by the government, according to the July 24 Canberra Times and Financial Review. They quoted an interdepartmental committee report and a