Qantas announced a record loss of $2.84 billion for the 2013/14 financial year as it has emerged the airline was losing $89 per second. Australian Services Union secretary Ingrid Stitt said the Qantas loss announced today was concerning. She called for Mr Joyce to be sacked.
The Australian Services Union has accused Qantas management of driving Australia’s national airline into the ground following a $2.84 billion loss statement announced this morning. ASU Victorian Branch Secretary, Ingrid Stitt, says the current board’s position in support of Alan Joyce’s plans for the airline is untenable, and that Qantas management needs a plan for…
ASU Private Sector Secretary, Ingrid Stitt, said Target’s decision to outsource the work was a “slap in the face” for staff who had stuck by the company after last year’s loss job losses.
Target has cut 23 jobs from its head office in the Victorian city of Geelong, just over a year after making more than 250 employees redundant.
The Australian Services Union said Target intended to outsource a number of functions and refused to confirm or deny whether the outsourced jobs would be offshore.
TARGET has sacked 23 workers at its Geelong office in the latest jobs blow to the city. The jobs will go on the banking and finance section, the Australian Services Union said. The jobs will be outsourced to Accenture, but there was no guarantees the jobs will not go offshore. It comes after 260 Target…
RETAILER Target has cut 23 jobs from its head office in the Victorian city of Geelong, just over a year after making more than 250 employees redundant. The Australian Services Union said Target intended to outsource a number of functions and refused to confirm or deny whether the outsourced jobs would be offshore. ASU Victorian…
The Australian Services Union has condemned the decision to axe another 23 jobs from its North Geelong head office, after having made over 250 workers redundant just over a year ago. ASU Victorian Private Sector Branch Secretary, Ingrid Stitt, said that today is a sad and difficult time for the workers and their families who…
Geelong has been dealt another round of job losses with retail giant Target announcing forced redundancies in its banking and finance sector. The Australian Services Union was called to meet with workers at Target’s Geelong headquarters early on Thursday morning. The union has confirmed that 23 Geelong workers have been retrenched from the division, with…
Today your ASU representatives met with Qantas to discuss the outcome of the EOI process. We were provided with a high level overview of the EOI’s. What’s clear is only a small number of people have nominated to transfer to Hobart, which falls well below the 80 staff Qantas had originally predicted would transfer. Some…
A COMPROMISE bill to change the Qantas Sale Act hasn’t left the flying kangaroo jumping for joy and the carrier will keep lobbying for a full repeal of the legislation. Despite claims by Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss that the changes went “some way to easing restrictive ownership provisions on Qantas”, market reaction to the…
This year has started on a worrying note with Government Ministers blaming workers for receiving a decent, fair, living wage Industrial Relations Minister Eric Abetz recently said: “We risk seeing something akin to the ‘wages explosions’ of the pre-Accord era, when unsustainable wage growth simply pushed thousands of Australians out of work”. This belittles the very…
Since taking to power in September, Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his Coalition Government have relentlessly tried to frame the conversation on the Australian economy against working people and their hard won fair wages and conditions. But we need to be clear on the facts. Recent data has shown that in the year to 31st December…