Qantas Group has provided an update on payment eligibility for the current period of stand downs. Staff will qualify for one of the Covid-19 Disaster Payment (CDP), Domestic Retention Payment (DRP), or the International Readiness Payment (IRP) depending on your work group & location. The ASU met with Qantas on Tuesday 17 August to clarify…
Since the Federal Government’s announcement that new payments would be available for domestic airline workers, we have been working with Virgin and the Government to understand: Eligibility for the new payments How the payments will be paid How they interact with other payments This week Virgin advised us that, unlike other airlines, they did not…
Your JobSeeker Questions, Answered. Recently, the Federal Government have made changes to both JobKeeper and JobSeeker. The Federal Government have confirmed they will not extend JobKeeper beyond the 28th of March 2021 leaving many workers uncertain about their future. With thousands of workers still reliant on the JobKeeper program this short-sighted announcement to cut JobKeeper…
Today we wrote to airlines and ground handlers to seek an urgent update on today’s tourism and aviation sector announcement and the impact it will have on the organisation. Details of the letter are included below. We have also formally written to the Federal Government to seek an urgent briefing on what today’s announcement means…
COVID has brought home why it is so important to be in the union. Issues like job security, income, protection of entitlements and occupational health and safety have confronted millions of workers. We have worked to keep members in jobs and help them address concerns about safety. Our numbers have grown in recent months which…
ASU representatives met with management on Monday, 15 February and Tuesday, 16 February – and it became apparent that Qantas management have no idea how they are actually going to make their thought-bubble to cut the Sales, Service and Baggage Desks work. This is shameful. It’s clear that the promised ‘digital servicing’ technology doesn’t even…
The ASU has lodged disputes in the Fair Work Commission under the Helloworld and Qantas Holidays Enterprise Agreements challenging the company’s proposal that workers agree to accept a pay cut. Earlier this month, Andrew Burnes, the CEO and Managing Director of Helloworld Travel, and Alex Trifonidis, General Manager of HR at Helloworld, contacted some Helloworld…
ASU representatives met with the Federal Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Professor Michael Kidd, for a briefing on the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines in priority industries, including airlines and airports, on Monday, 15 February 2021. The Federal Government, with the support of the states, is responsible for rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine. They are prioritising high-risk…
This weekend has brought back familiar challenges. Uncertainty and rapid changes caused by COVID is difficult to say the least. As Victoria has swung into a circuit breaker lockdown to get ahead of the current situation, your union has also continued in our fight to bring certainty for our members in aviation. Right now members…
The Slater and Gordon (S&G) EBA negotiations have resumed following the Christmas/New Year’s break. The first meeting for 2021 occurred on February 4 and the next meeting is scheduled for February 18. Meetings usually occur on a fortnightly basis. We had a number of meetings in 2020, but then some key HR personnel left the…
Tonight airlines members came together online to fight for AviationKeeper and to extend JobKeeper for all aviation workers. We came together as union members to launch our campaign Keep Australia Flying because no worker should be left behind by this crisis. Your union is campaigning for ongoing income support and wage subsidies for the aviation…
Keep Australia Flying Report Today we launched the Keep Australia Flying Report. We surveyed more than 500 workers in aviation about what impacts COVID had on them and what they needed to come through this crisis. What we heard was aviation workers have been doing it tough. Aviation workers are highly skilled and know what…