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Inside this issue: Attendance Management Policy (AMP) interviews Union medal now on issue 2012 Membership cards and helmet stickers

Union appeals against LSV dispute orders Urgent nursing home audit Police to interview all members responding to Quakers Hill Retiring soon? SSS and SAS contributions can be salary sacrificed The rhetoric and realities of the mining boom

Inside this issue: Retained page pain: don't get short-changed Deeming update Bathurst goes 10/14 Update on alternative duties terminations

Inside this issue: Electricity SOGs training update HR driving excess sick leave

Inside this issue: O'Farrell attacks Police D&D - firefighters next? S/O Level 2 promotions update Retained summit Anti-Union faxes and flyers on stations Electricity SOGs Training Audit banned

Inside this issue: Attendance Management Policy bans lifted Department prosecutes Union over LSV bans 2011 AGM Results

Inside this issue: LSV dispute victory - but what's next? Plans to close Wollongong and Katoomba Comms Union medal approved, issue imminent Promotion to S/O Level 2 Retained Training: Phase 1 not to be phased out Sacking contagion crosses the border Exercise and mental health Mental Health event cancelled

The Department continues to pretend that it has the right to renege on its agreement on LSV staffing. Neither the Department nor the IRC hearing today has provided any answer to this critical question – with the result that the Union’s bans will continue until further notice. The Union cannot and will not accept that the Department can unilaterally walk away from agreements over safety, jobs and conditions.

Despite today's bans, and a hearing before VP Walton of the IRC, FRNSW management still refuses to respect the agreement between the Union and Department for the staffing of the LSVs. Consequently all bans remain in place. The parties are appearing before IRC Commissioner Ritchie in Newcastle at 1000 hours tomorrow, where the Department will make application for Dispute Orders against the Union. It is the Department that has bought on this dispute, and the Department that can end it. Our demand is eminently reasonable - simply that FRNSW management remain true to their word.