ASU update for QBT members Our union Organisers and Delegates from QBT met with Qantas management yesterday in order to commence the consultation process leading up to the gradual reduction of Qantas staff at QBT between now and March 2021. As you are aware, Qantas has decided that it will not renew the current LRA…
ASU Fights for better and safer conditions As you have no doubt heard, Stage 3 lockdowns have been reintroduced on Melbourne due to the recent break out of Covid-19. This will be extremely upsetting and frustrating for a lot of people. Serco Call Centres are considered an essential services, which means you will be able to…
ASU met with Jetstar about restructuring Following announcements made by Alan Joyce to the media about restructuring the group airlines, ASU delegates and organisers met with Jetstar management on 1 July 2020 to get an initial briefing about the impacts to management teams at airports, as well as JOCC and Operational Corporate Support and Commercial…
ASU Qantas Airport delegates meet with management ASU Qantas airport delegates and officials had our first meeting with Qantas airport senior management on Monday 6th July via video conference to discuss how the announcement by Alan Joyce on 25th June 2020 will affect ASU members in customer service roles at airports. On 26th June 2020…
Qantas lacks principles on JobKeeper – time to fight for what is rightfully ours The saga with Qantas over JobKeeper continues. As we reported back in April 2020, Qantas believes that in a fortnight an employee did not work it can nevertheless use the $1500 fortnightly JobKeeper payment to pay for penalty rates from the…
Redundancies and Divestment of CAEL Team Redundancies at Slater & Gordon The ASU has been made aware of a number of redundancies across the Victorian Slater & Gordon offices over the last few weeks. Initially these redundancies affected one or two roles in a particular practice area, but as time has passed the ASU has…
ASU Member Magazine July 2020 Welcome to the mid-year edition of the ASU Unite Magazine – and what a year it’s been so far. Download and read the ASU Unite Magazine Here. From bushfires to a global pandemic that has brought unprecedented shutdowns and catapulted Australia into recession, our members have felt the impact of…
More Powerful Together: the Future of Virgin Group We know that the last couple of months have been incredibly stressful for you, but a successful bidder for Virgin – Bain Capital has now been announced and we are in the final stages of administration. This stage is the most critical – it’s where the administrator and…
Qantas Group job losses announcement premature and must be reversed Today Qantas has announced at least 6000 loyal hard-working Qantas group staff will lose their jobs by June 2022. This announcement disproportionately affects ASU covered employees and is not only a premature action but downright wrong and our job now is to get the decision…
Armaguard announce redundancies Today the ASU received an email from Armaguard Linfox advising that the business was announcing redundancies amongst several staff. This was the first time this issue had been raised and quite frankly came as a shock, it was only yesterday that we were advised that Armaguard was about to transition from the current…
Our plan to protect your job in the COVID-19 recovery Last night hundreds of ASU members who work in aviation around Australia met online and unanimously voted to campaign for AviationKeeper – an industry wide Government funding package to support the Australian aviation industry get through the COVID-19 recovery. Can you sign the petition calling on…
Update and ASU Visit for HelloWorld/Viva These last few months have been unprecedented and difficult for us all. Unfortunately this is not business as usual. But we want to make sure that you know we will be by your side every step of the way. Over the next week many at HelloWorld and Viva are…