Ever since Qantas announced the creation of a new Qantas international entity when they announced the company results, Qantas unions have been seeking clarification about whether the new company would be an employing entity and whether it would affect the terms and conditions of existing employees’ working in the Qantas international business. The ACTU on…
ASU Members have had enough! On Monday 17 November ASU members attended a series of briefings about the current state of the EBA negotiations. After a full overview was given to all those in attendance it became very apparent that members were sick to death of the constant and continual delays that have occurred during…
That is what your ASU delegates think about the recent cancellation of our EBA meeting on 11th November less than 24 hours before it was scheduled and the failure of the company to put their offer to us in writing. These matters coupled with the failure to finalise the payroll review mean only one…
The Australian Services Union Victorian Private Sector Branch (ASU) will host a forum of local state election candidates in Geelong tomorrow morning to discuss the future of Avalon Airport because current state government support is due to expire in April 2015, leaving the future of the Avalon Airport operation uncertain. ASU Branch Secretary, Ingrid Stitt,…
All employees, other than casuals, are entitled to sick leave when they are unable to work due to personal injury or illness. The amount of paid sick leave you are entitled to is covered under your EBA. Should you need to provide documentation to support your leave, Statutory Declarations (Stat Decs) as well as medical…
Your Jetstar National Negotiating Team met with the company on 15th September 2014 and 21st October 2014 to see if we can get any closer to finalizing an agreement. The company continues to say that they want an 18 month pay freeze so that no pay rise would be payable until 1st April 2015. We…
Representatives of the ASU met with Patty Holten and Lauren Laidlaw of SMCT on Friday 31st October to discuss preliminary issues around bargaining for the next indoor agreement. The following summarises key points. SMCT not bound by Victorian Government Industrial Relations Policy? Contrary to recent Management Communications, Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust is not a “Public…
The Australian Services Union applauds the commitment by the crossbench Senators to stand with Australian workers against the Abbot Government’s unfair changes to the Fair Entitlements Guarantee (FEG). FEG (formerly knows as GEERS) was one of the central safeguards that ensured workers who were caught up with the Ansett collapse got assistance when they were…
ASU delegates and officials met with Qantas Telephone Sales and HR management in Melbourne on 29th October 2014 for an update on the redeployment, redundancy and other issues arising from the closure of Brisbane and Melbourne Centres. As usual there were more questions than answers and disappointingly there is still misinformation and inconsistencies with information…
The Australian Services Union Victorian Private Sector branch will protest at the Qantas AGM in Melbourne tomorrow, calling on the company to reverse its decision to offshore call centre jobs to New Zealand. ASU Victorian Branch Secretary Ingrid Stitt said that over 500 Victorian ground staff and support roles have been made redundant since February…
That is the key message members are giving us about the recent email from Virgin Australia saying that team members around the country have “wrongly” been credited annual leave and they are taking it back. Back in March 2014 a payroll reconfiguration saw annual leave deducted from hundreds of staff – this was quickly reversed…
ASU delegates Deirdre Costa, Shijo Thomas and Maria Scafi from Melbourne and Alisha Hill and Jose Bejarano from Sydney along with ASU officials met again yesterday with Toll Dnata to continue negotiations for your new EBA. We waited 8 weeks for yesterday’s meeting because we thought Toll Dnata wanted to get your pay and conditions…