Community and Public Sector Union

Federal union conqueror Peter Riordan trades up to one of the southern hemisphere’s biggest payrolls, the NSW Department of Education.

AFPA has asked more than 7,000 Australian Federal Police staff to vote down the government’s current pay offer, saying it is insufficient.

Negotiations grind on amid the compromise for aviation firefighters. Nobody is blinking yet but the 17% bar has already been set.

AFP pay talks quietly continue amid one of the most unexpectedly violent few days in Australia, with the main elements of a new enterprise agreement now circulated to staff and officers.

The ATO seeks to simplify overlapping or duplicated functions in its main customer-facing arm, amid a big push to call in debts.

The threat of weeks of national disruption hits home with cash extinguisher applied to aviation dispute before it scorches sector.

There’s been no breakthrough in ongoing talks about flexible working locations, as police, firies and air traffic controllers get set to buffet the aviation sector.

The four-year Victorian public service wage offer includes annual pay rises of 3%, a $5,600 bonus and one-off $1,000 payment to shift workers.

The Australian Federal Police Association will paint high-visibility messages on AFP vehicles at selected airports in protest against the public sector wage deal.

Winter is coming, and Canberra can get rather frosty. Branded puffer jackets might warm office workers, but not so much icebreaker crew.

Air traffic controllers will join the AFP and aviation firefighters in strikes against the latest federal government wage deal.

But the plight of non-APS agencies like the AFP is highlighted as employers attack the winner-takes-all deal for flexi-desk drivers.

Tracy Mackey has confirmed she will step down in May after two years as the NDIS’s quality and safeguard commissioner.

FWC approves a floor vote on industrial action given the AFP is unimpressed by irrelevant new WFH conditions and wants actual money instead.