Inside this issue:

• O’Farrell attacks our wages and conditions: WorkChoices NSW-style is here
• User Pays Promotions – OTEN fees dispute update
• 2011 Easter Sunday Public Holiday and consolidated leave
• Coffs Harbour Retained – the Department’s 2nd class citizens
• Notice of Transfer – not on leave

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• O’Farrell attacks public sector wages – update

• Community safety activities

• FRNSW Removals

• Union’s Rules available on website Read more…

Inside this issue:

• O’Farrell attacks workplace safety…
• …and public sector wages
• Union seeks increase in LSL quotas
• Transfers and qualifications update
• Welfare concerns, or AMP by stealth?
• Permanent service numbers sorted

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As members will be aware, there is an ongoing dispute between the UFUA and the FBEU. On the one hand, over 4600 FBEU members have resigned from the UFUA over the UFUA’s manifest incompetence. In return the UFUA has initiated action in the Federal Court against the FBEU and it’s officials. The FBEU wants to place its current and prospective members at Serco on a solid footing to best represent our members, and so has made the following interim arrangements. Read more…

Time for new state government to commit to funding full time fire protection for regional communities

The firefighters union is today calling on the NSW State Government to commit to a timeline for funding full time fire protection for the major regional communities of Bathurst and Nowra.

Fire Brigade Employees’ Union (FBEU) NSW State President Darin Sullivan said that the two regional centres deserved staffing enhancements to provide full time fire protection.

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Inside this issue:

• 2011 Easter public holidays and consolidated leave
• Department’s new IR strategy – keep digging
• New meals and refreshment guides
• AMP in a coma?
• 2011 Union Aid Abroad Apheda Raffle closing soon

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