Certain allowances in both the Permanent and Retained Awards increased on 1 July 2006.  Most of these increased rates reflect a 2.7% increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) since the last review in July 2005. Read more…

Inside this notice:

• Progression from QF to SF sorted
• Disability discrimination – Dept loses case and costs
• Medical certificates
• 2006 D&D Award update
• Its your Union – get involved
• Asbestos

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Management of ESS (a global company which has the contract for private fire services at military bases near Wagga and Bandiana (Vic) delayed finalising a private sector collective agreement with its staff until today by giving assurances to the United Firefighters Union that no new offer would be put to members unless agreed by the Union. Read more…

Two years and six weeks after ‘Operation Explorer’, the biggest NSWFB anti-terrorism exercise to date, the facts are finally starting to emerge from the fog of managerial responsibility. Read more…

As late as yesterday afternoon, the Department finally put the cards on the table and informed our Union that it can not and will not fund any wages increases as a result of the introduction of the second stage of the Public Safety Training Package. Read more…

The trade union movement is now putting its weight behind the right of Australian citizen David Hicks to a free and fair trial after the US Supreme Court last week ruled that the Guantanamo Bay maximum security prison is unconstitutional under US law. Read more…

A union-busting test case is currently before the Federal Court in Western Australia after building workers attached to the $1.5 Billion Perth to Mandurah “cross city tunnel” project walked off the job to support a sacked shop steward. The workers are likely to face jail time if they refuse to pay fines of up to $28,000 each. Read more…