CPSU - Community and Public Sector Union
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Our union works collectively to ensure workers are safe at work & have fair rights, pay & conditions.
BIG NEWS! The CPSU's Melissa Donnelly has been appointed as Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, when Sally McManus finishes at the end of this month. We wish Melissa every success in her new role and thank her for her enormous contribution to the CPSU and our members.
The Coalition took a plan to slash 41,000 public sector jobs to the last election and were thrashed. According to Einstein, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results. Maybe Angus is smarter than Albert. 🤪 www.canberratimes.com.au/story/932135...
The only people who benefit from the current employment services system are the private, for-profit corporations.
Proud to have worked with CPSU to highlight, and challenge, the profiteering and lack of transparency in the outsourced jobseekers sector www.cpsu.org.au/CPSU/Content... @cpsu.org.au
Australia's jobseeker system fails workers and enriches millionaires
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A new report into privatised employment services is a damning indictment of a system that blatantly rewards greedy corporations for treating job seekers as a commodity to be exploited. The Govt should stop outsourcing work and put employment service in public hands. Link in comments.
Bring. It. On. Australia’s scandal-ridden consulting firms could be broken up entirely or face massive fines, under long-awaited Treasury plans to clean up a sector still engulfed in claims of incompetence and dodgy auditing. Read more from the ABC. abc.net.au/.../post-kpm... #auspol2026
Despite scandals, resignations and serious ethical failures, KPMG still has a $1.3m Govt contract teaching ethics to senior public servants. Rather than lining the pockets of expensive consultants, the Govt should invest in public sector jobs and services. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2026/06...
When Pauline Hanson stands at the National Press Club and casually talks about axing departments that undertake critical work and employ thousands of people, she gives Australians a glimpse into a frightening future where ideology and vindictiveness would rule. - Melissa Donnelly @cpsu.org.au
FAFO for KPMG. Disgraced consulting group KPMG has effectively been banned from new federal government work while the Govt reviews its suitability. The move follows a whistleblower scandal, which showed executives sharing sensitive information for financial gain. www.smh.com.au/business/com...
Privatisation has failed. Job seekers are sick of being lectured by flashy ‘entrepreneurs’ who are milking the government for hundreds of millions of dollars. The Government's recent announcement is welcome, but progress must not stop here. Read more: www.proudtobepublic.org.au/news-blog/em...
A step forward on employment services - but we’re not done yet — Proud to be public
The Emploment Services changes are positive, but there’s more to be done.
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CPSU members are ready to start bargaining on a new APS agreement, but the Government is dragging its feet. To avoid delays, we're calling on the Government to start negotiations immediately. If you want your next pay rise delivered on time, sign our petition. Go to bit.ly/PetitionAPSbarg
"I'll be back ... as a short-term contractor." Proving they learned nothing from their disastrous election campaign last year, the Coalition have dusted off their plan to slash public sector job and services, this time with A.I. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/925069...
Hundreds of ABC union members walking off the job on Wednesday morning. They are taking 24-hour strike action for the first time in 20 years. They're deadly serious about fighting for a fair agreement that protects their conditions, and has a pay rise that won't leave them worse off.
Union members at the ABC are walking off the job today for 24 hours from 11am to protest a low pay offer which would leave them behind financially at time when the price of everything is going up. ABC staff provide a vital service, they deserve decent pay. #auspol2026 #AusUnions #ourABC
Strike action looms at ABC: Union members at the ABC have strongly rejected management’s latest pay offer and endorsed a campaign of industrial action including a 25-hour strike from 11am Wed 25 March as part of their campaign to secure a new enterprise agreement. www.cpsu.org.au/CPSU/Content...
Strike action looms as ABC bargaining dispute continues
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One rule for bosses, another for staff. ABC workers deserve a better deal. Read more in the SMH: www.smh.com.au/cbd/abc-s-ki... ($)
When will employers stop trying to use the 'pizza party' tactic as a replacement for pay rises and worker wellbeing?
Did you know that a private sector debt collection company used by the ATO: a) mistreats vulnerable taxpayers and welfare recipients b) exploits its own staff through low pay and poor training c) and - cherry on top - pays zero corporate tax. Yet the govt continues to pay them millions of dollars.
Welcome to today's episode of 'Why the APS really needs to phase out consultants and contractors'... Read more in the Canberra Times: www.canberratimes.com.au/story/894417...
First up, Deloitte used AI to write a Government report for that had bogus sources, sparking a refund and new contract rules. Now it seems their correction needs correcting. Once more for those up the back: outsourcing public sector work doesn’t work.
Albanese urged to ‘secure the future of science’ as CSIRO reckons with ongoing decline in funding: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The CPSU said the government should be "backing the CSIRO, not forcing them to be penny pinchers. We’ve already seen more than 700 jobs cut from CSIRO, and hundreds more are expected to go.” #auspol #CSIRO www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese urged to ‘secure the future of science’ as CSIRO reckons with ongoing decline in funding
CEO Doug Hilton says the agency’s budget allocation ‘has not kept up with the cost of doing science’
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A disgraced contractor writing a Govt report about how a dodgy tech and the removal of human oversight led to the Robotdebt disaster used dodgy AI to write the report. Irony is dead. And robust public administration will be too unless there are proper AI guardrails in the APS. Read more: gqr.sh/L9YM
After losing the election, the Coalition dropped its plan to slash public services. Now it seems they want to attack the people who access them.
In an increasingly volatile global economy, we need ideas and innovation more ever. So why are CSIRO cutting 100s of research jobs? #auspol
Whether it's inventing game-changers like wi-fi or polymer banknotes, or new agricultural techniques, the CSIRO has a proud history taking our nation forward. In an increasingly volatile global economy, we need ideas and innovation more ever. So why are CSIRO cutting 100s of research jobs? #auspol
