At our fourth EBA meeting on 14th April 2016 Qantas finally provided us with the issues they want to achieve out of this agreement negotiations. The company provided us with details of most of their claims which can be summarised as follows: 18 month wage freeze and 3% p.a. thereafter (when they say it starts and whether a lump sum…
Happy pay rise! Your EBA pay increase is brought to you by union members. Your EBA pay rise for April 2016 has arrived and you should receive it in next week’s pay. You will receive a further EBA pay increases in April 2017. Given it’s pay rise time, we thought it’d be a good opportunity to…
As the union for workers in your sector, the Australian Services Union is currently conducting a survey of professional office workers. We are seeking your views about your work, specifically how you identify your job and your sector, and also the workplace issues of most concern to you. We also would like to know what…
On March 10th, 2016 our second EBA meeting with Qantas management kicked off with the presentation of many of our detailed claims for EBA 11. For over 3 hours your National Negotiating team (NNT) went to the nitty gritty of the claims that you want to achieve in any new bargaining agreement. We talked about:…
ASU members across Australia have overwhelmingly endorsed the ASU’s EBA 11 claim after attending meetings across Australia to discuss the recommendations from the ASU Qantas National delegates meeting in February 2016. What’s our claim? ASU members endorsed a comprehensive claim which recognises that ASU members play a significant role in Qantas’ Operations and that they…
The ASU is calling for expressions of interest for any ASU member interested in becoming an ASU delegate. Currently there are 2 ASU delegates within your workplace Brett Whitehead and Kalpana Fear and we would like to increase the delegate numbers to ensure that we can best address your workplace issues. We have decided to…
Our most recent negotiation with Armaguard saw the company bring to the table a few changes to be considered. These changes have come about because the ASU has continued to question whether or not their previous offer would stack up against the new Award and Fair Work Act. Whilst the offer appears to have improvements…
Today Tabcorp asked the union to a meeting to discuss the plans that RVL have to trial shorter race meetings at some country and metropolitan tracks. As members would have noticed there have been some changes to the scheduling of races, currently being trialled by RVL and certain racing clubs, with the time between races…
Around 60 ASU delegates from all states and territories met in Melbourne on 3 February 2016 to commence preparations for bargaining in Qantas Airways, QCatering and QFIT. Almost 1000 responses for our EBA 11 survey were received and the results were considered in depth at our meeting. Delegates endorsed a recommendation for our ASU EBA…
Expressions of Interest for the PAX Rostering Committee are now open. Menzies are currently seeking expressions of interest for Menzies employees who wish to join the PAX Rostering Committee. Rostering committee members will need to be available for rostering meetings once a month for a minimum of 2 hours, and for up to 8 hours…
Enterprise agreement bargaining expected to commence in 2016 On Tuesday 15 December 2015, the Department of Finance issued a notification of employee representation rights to commence negotiating the next enterprise agreement. Have you appointed someone to be your bargaining representative? If you have not appointed a representative and you are not a member of the…
Employees have overwhelmingly voted to agree to the terms of new ASU and Helloworld Enterprise Agreement, which was negotiated and recommended by the ASU National Negotiating Team. The independent company who conducted the ballot has declared that the new agreement has been approved by a majority of staff – almost 90% of employees who voted…