You would now be aware that Singapore Airlines has set the wheels in motion to close its defined benefit superannuation fund, and transfer all members of the fund to the Aon accumulation fund on 31 October 2015. Many ASU members have contacted us with questions about how this will impact on them. On Friday 28…
The ASU is pleased to announce that drafting of your Enterprise Agreement is now complete. The drafting process was complex and both parties worked hard to ensure agreed entitlements were delivered. The following aspects proved difficult but have now been resolved to the Unions satisfaction, Provision of Government standard redundancy entitlements. These entitlements exceed those…
Recent negotiations between Tabcorp & the ASU on September 2 revealed, if not the full detail, at least the general intention & direction of Tabcorp for the new enterprise agreement. Points that previously hadn’t been dealt with in negotiations that were discussed in the Sept 2 meeting include; Sessional rates of pay; breaks and; redundancies…
The announcement this week of massive changes to the roster will have a big impact on many staff at Armaguard. Upon hearing the proposal from management, ASU reps discussed ways to minimalize the impact. This includes: Reducing casual hours so that those hours at the beginning of shift are available for impacted staff. Offering additional…
It seems as though the price we must pay for getting all the information we need to bargain properly is a break from bargaining. Tabcorp have cancelled the last two negotiations with the ASU and are still yet to confirm our meeting next week. They said that in order to give us proposals on sessional…
Following the recent hearing at the Fair Work Commission, the ASU has received the attached letter from Malaysia Airlines regarding the transfer of business to Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB). The Malaysia Airlines representatives confirmed that MAS employees will transfer employment to MAB from the 1st of September 2015, and that existing employee conditions and entitlements will…
Malaysia Airlines Systems (MAS) still cannot answer how MAS will operate in Australian when it mutates into Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) in just over two weeks’ time. The ASU continues to pursue Malaysia Airlines for answers on its structure post 1 September 2015 and so the ASU has re-activated our Fair Work Commission dispute. The…
Finally, after months of telling Tabcorp we were ready to bargain, the ASU and reps sat down with the company a few weeks ago and bargaining commenced. Except, Tabcorp still hasn’t told us all of what they want after repeated requests and 3 meetings. On top of that, the company is asking us to provide…
After over a year of negotiations with dnata (and before that Toll dnata), your ASU National Negotiating Team now believe we have an offer from the company we can recommend to members for new Passenger Services Agreements in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. The ASU sought assistance of the Fair Work Commission (“FWC”) (the independent…
The ASU AaE EBA was approved by the Fair Work Commission on 29th July 2015 and so comes into operation on 5 August 2015. Under the agreement a pay rise was due the first pay period on or after 1 July 2015. As yet we have not been able to establish when the back pay…
Over the past few weeks your ASU representatives have met with management on a number of occasions to commence negotiations for a new enterprise agreement. We have told management that Helloworld employees want to see a number of improvements to their conditions of employment, including: Fair and transparent pay bands, and annual pay increases; Increased…
Thanks to all the staff across Australia who have filled out the ASU Maurice Blackburn EBA survey. The results are now in and shortly we will be holding meetings of members across the country to endorse the log of claims that your ASU delegates are recommending arising from the survey. We had a great response…