The United Services Union is the largest local government union in NSW with over 25,000 members.
If you work in Local Government the USU Is your union. The USU covers employees in a range of areas, including:
* libraries
* road construction and maintenance
* parks and gardens
* finance
* refuse collection
* child care
* planning
* local laws
* recreation and swimming centres
* call centres
* administration
* aged services
* youth services
* generalist community services
* regulatory & compliance officers
* multi-cultural services
* Aboriginal Community Liaison
* disability services
... and many others
The local government members are covered by our Branches located throughout NSW.
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Award 2010: Get on Board
USU Get on Board Challenge Launched at Union Picnic Day Mar 12, 2010: USU members and their families celebrated metro union picnic day at Luna
Park on 12th March and the Union launched its Get on Board for the New Award Challenge. Find out about the challenge - and check out some picnic day photos too!
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Council rate pegging must go before communities suffer Feb 18, 2010: The State Government.s decision to reduce the 2010-11 rate cap for NSW
councils to 2.6 per cent will have a severe impact on the services
communities rely on, said the United Services Union (USU) today.
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Award 2010: Get on Board
Local Government Award 2010: What Members Want Feb 16, 2010: The Union is preparing to file a new Local Government (State) Award in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission. In the lead up to this process the Union undertook a survey of members. The response from members was tremendous - over 400 surveys were received by late October 2009. The following is a summary of these responses.
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New England Alliance Council jobs on the line Feb 11, 2010: Local government employees
working for councils in the New England Strategic Alliance of Councils could be
at risk of forced redundancy while the State Government carries out a review of
local services.
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CORPORATE SAVING WORKSHOPS ACROSS MID WESTERN REGIONAL COUNCIL May 1, 2009: The United Services Union urges all members and employees to attend Workshops in your area and department which have been set-up by MWRC in conjunction with the USU to allow everybody to have a say in where council’s finances could be better utilised. We need all workers to have an input so bring your ideas to the workshops.
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PROTECTING OUR STATE AWARD: TIME FOR KEVIN RUDD AND NATHAN REES TO HONOUR PROMISES TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES Apr 2, 2009: With the new Fair Work Australia federal industrial relations changes having passed into law Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard is now chairing a series of meetings with State Industrial Relations Ministers to reach agreement on how these new laws will apply to employees presently engaged under State awards. The USU is calling on the State and Federal governments to stand by pre-election commitments to protect our NSW State award and state industrial rights.
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