Steve Rogers

  • National gains for Challenge in CPSU elections

    CANBERRA — The results of ACT and national by-elections in the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) have thrown a scare into the ruling ALP faction. In the ACT, CPSU Challenge candidate Greg Adamson easily won the assistant

  • By-elections in public sector union

    CANBERRA — National officials in the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) are anxiously watching the outcome of by-elections taking place throughout May. In recent months, widespread criticism has emerged of the union's

  • ANU anti-fees campaigner is socialist candidate

    CANBERRA — Australian National University student and anti-fees campaigner Alison Dellit will be contesting the February 18 ACT elections as a Democratic Socialist candidate. Twenty-year-old Dellit is also a well known

  • ALP unions attack ACT public service union

    CANBERRA — Opponents of the ACT branch of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) are attempting to cut their losses following the resignation of one of their supporters from the position of branch assistant secretary. The

  • Meat inspectors' conditions for the chop?

    Meat inspectors' conditions for the chop?CANBERRA — Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) agency bargaining negotiations broke down on July 8 over the issue of conditions for meat inspectors and field-based

  • Public service ends base grade recruitment

    Public service ends base grade recruitmentCANBERRA — From September, the Australian Public Service is to end recruitment of regularly paid base grade (or ASO1) officers. These are to be replaced by "trainees". This has

  • High vote for PSU Challenge

    CANBERRA — Public Sector Union National Challenge activists contesting national elections gained over one third of the vote in the recently completed ballot count. The incumbent Wendy Caird and Peter Robson team is

  • Jobs at risk in DEET proposal

    CANBERRA — Despite union claims, an agreement before public servants in the Department of Employment, Education and Training provides no guarantees of job security. The Public Sector Union national leadership had

  • PSU incumbents force agency bargains on members

    CANBERRA — As Public Sector Union members across Australia start voting in national elections, incumbent officials are out in force. But only some are doing so under the election banner. Most are out campaigning for the

  • ACT PSU faces national intervention

    CANBERRA — A May 12 meeting of the Public Sector Union national executive decided to intervene in its ACT union branch affairs. At an unspecified time PSU national secretary Peter Robson will "convene meetings of ACT Government

  • PSU elections heat up

    CANBERRA — One hundred and twenty thousand members of the Public Sector Union will be sent ballot papers in the coming week in a national election which is crucial for the union's future. For the first time, the incumbents are

  • Dirty tricks in PSU national election campaign

    CANBERRA — Incumbent national officials in the Public Sector Union have embarked on a campaign of red-baiting and dirty tricks prior to national union elections in mid-May. The cause of their concern is a campaign being run by