Tag: efficiency dividend
Pacing towards austerity
Posted by John, December 2nd, 2011 - under Politicians pay, Public Service.
Tags: Budget, Budget surplus, efficiency dividend
Comments: 1
I wrote this article for Socialist Alternative. It is a combination of two recent articles on this site about well paid politicians and the Labor Government’s attacks on its workforce and the disadvantaged to produce a meaningless Budget surplus. The Labor government has launched a significant attack on its own employees by increasing the Orwellian […]
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Bailing out the Tax Office
Posted by Leonie, May 28th, 2009 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: ATO, Australian politics, Australian Tax Office, Change program, Class struggle, CPSU, efficiency dividend
Comments: 3
It’s time for Tax Office staff to stop the flow of money to the Government to win more staff and more pay and improve tax administration in Australia.
The Tax Office: the attacks on staff continue
Posted by Bill, May 3rd, 2009 - under Labor Party, Labor sackings, Living standards, Public Service, Resistance, sackings, Strikes, Tax Office, Trade unions, Unions.
Tags: ALP, ATO, Australian Tax Office, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, Demonstrations, efficiency dividend, Fighting back
Comments: 5
By striking and stopping Government revenue, tax officers can win large wage increases and job security.
Stats sacks staff
Posted by Bill, April 18th, 2009 - under Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Labor sackings, Public Service, Reformism, Resistance, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, sackings, Strikes, The Great Recession, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions.
Tags: ALP, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian politics, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, efficiency dividend, Fighting back, Great Recession
Comments: none
According to Satuday’s Canberra Times, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has begun to carry out its decision to sack 180 staff. This week 31 learned they are going. More will get the boot in the coming weeks. My union, the CPSU, has done nothing but talk. Only mass meetings of all CPSU members to consider indefinite strike […]
Public servants: get thee to a tannery
Posted by Bill, April 7th, 2009 - under Jobs, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Labor sackings, Public Service.
Tags: Australian politics, Australian Services Union, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, efficiency dividend, Fighting back
Comments: none
The Budget is on 12 May. Labor Ministers are positioning themselves to blame others for the brutal attacks on living standards they are preparing.
Labor’s Kaiser: ‘efficiency’ dividend means less jobs
Posted by John, March 29th, 2009 - under Jobs, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, meat axe, Public Service, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, sackings, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wages.
Tags: ALP, Anna Bligh, Australian politics, dextering, efficiency dividend
Comments: 2
Only industrial action will stop the dexters in the Federal Labor Government from splattering the blood of thousands of innocents on the abattoir floor of unemployment.
Labor culling the Public Service
Posted by John, March 20th, 2009 - under Immigration, Labor Party, Public Service, Resistance, Rudd Labor, sackings, Tax Office.
Tags: ALP, ATO, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian politics, Class struggle, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, efficiency dividend, Fighting back, Geoscience Australia
Comments: 3
Labor’s public service jobs cull so far: 150 from Geoscience Australia; 180 from the Australian Bureau of Statistics; 800 from Immigration; A possible 3000 or more from the ATO; and An unknown number from Medicare. Isn’t it time for public servants to fight back against Labor’s jobs’ slaughter? If you have any additions or updates for Labor’s job cull, let […]
Geoscience Australia loses its way
Posted by John, March 20th, 2009 - under Jobs, Labor Party, Lindsay Tanner, Public Service, Resistance, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, sackings, Strikes, The Great Recession, Trade unions, Unions.
Tags: ALP, Australian politics, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, Demonstrations, efficiency dividend, Fighting back, Geoscience Australia
Comments: none
150 jobs – that’s how many contractors this financial year won’t have their contracts renewed at Geoscience Australia. It means 20 percent of the workforce won’t be there after 30 June. The agency has also frozen recruitment and new equipment purchases. Why? Declining budgets now and into the future. In other words the Rudd Labor […]
Il Globo, the Tax Office and me
Posted by John, March 19th, 2009 - under Jobs, Labor Party, Neoliberalism, Part time work, Public Service, sackings, Tax, Tax Office, unemployment, Unions, Workplace madness.
Tags: ATO, Commissioner of Taxation, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, Democracy, efficiency dividend
Comments: 4
There was an interesting interview with Michael D’Ascenzo, the Commissioner of Taxation in Australia, in Il Globo recently. Here is part of the interview with Michael. A former assistant commissioner, John Passant, recently described the office as dominated by people who were too old and hostage to a “detail fetish” where they should be thinking big. […]
Labor will dexter the public service
Posted by John, March 12th, 2009 - under Jobs, Labor Party, Lindsay Tanner, Living standards, meat axe, Productivity, Public Service, Resistance, sackings, Social Democracy, Strikes, Tanner, Tax, Tax Office, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wages.
Tags: ALP, ATO, Australian politics, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, dextering, efficiency dividend, Fighting back, Great Recession
Comments: none
Lindsay Tanner will not take a meat axe to the public service. He’ll dexter it. Although the techniques are very different, the results are the same. Tanner will destroy public service jobs, programs and lives. In Long-term sustainable growth, a speech Tanner gave to the National Press Club on 11 March, the Minister for Finance said: The Rudd Government inherited an […]