ASU Challenges pay rates at PAL This week the ASU held members meetings about concerns raised by employees. Broadly, these concerns regarded lack of training and lack of support to deal with the work that is expected, as well as severe under staffing on busy shifts, leaving employees overworked and exposed to often angry and…
Virgin blows up negotiations with 4-year wage freeze proposal Your ASU representatives met with management on Tuesday to continue negotiations for the new Guest Services and GCC enterprise agreement. Management put a revised offer to us, stating it was a “very close to final” offer, and that if we don’t agree in the next week…
Recent JobKeeper payments made by Virgin Last week you will have received a new rate of JobKeeper payments but many members have reported a range of issues and significant confusion with the implementation. It is extremely disappointing that Virgin is still finalising individual eligibility despite knowing of the changes for several weeks. At a time…
Recent JobKeeper payments made by Qantas Last week you should have received a JobKeeper payment which appeared to be significantly less than previous fortnightly JobKeeper amounts you may have received over recent months. The Federal Government in its decision to extend the JobKeeper payments until March next year has cut back on the amounts to…
QF-QBT EOI update A meeting was held yesterday involving your Union Organisers, your ASU Delegates and senior Qantas management to discuss the outcomes of the recent EOI process and the next steps to be taken. Whilst the EOI process was open to all QF staff across the various QBT / HW operations nationally, in terms…
JobKeeper Changes & Extended Scheme The Federal Government has made some important changes to JobKeeper. The good news is that the JobKeeper Payment scheme has been extended until 28 March 2021 to ensure more Australians can stay in jobs and more businesses can survive the economic fallout of this pandemic. However, the bad news is…
Maurice Blackburn Employees Agreement 2020 has been voted upon and endorsed The ASU is pleased to announce that Maurice Blackburn employees nationally have participated in a vote and have agreed to the proposed Maurice Blackburn Employees’ Agreement 2020 negotiated by the Union. 98.8% of employees who voted last week, voted in favour of the Agreement.…
ASU win! Federal sides with unions in Qantas JobKeeper case On 24 September 2020, the Federal Court ruled that Qantas misinterpreted S789GDA of the Fair Work Act when calculating JobKeeper payments. This is a landmark win for ASU members at Qantas. The ASU, along with the FAAA and TWU, brought the case after Qantas short-changed…
Dnata Catering to cut up to 1000 Jobs across the country You may be aware of an announcement made yesterday by Dnata Catering confirming that it will be making approximately 1000 of its Catering employees redundant on a National level across various ports. In Melbourne alone, the numbers to be made redundant are approximately 310…
Proposed consolidation of Contact Centre Investigation & Express Parcels Freight Solutions Teams On Friday last week, our Union received correspondence from the business that it had plans to create one integrated Express Parcels – Freight Investigation Team at its Melbourne Airport Operations. Our Union made contact with Toll and requested to meet in order to get some…
Qantas Airports Update Today ASU delegates and officials met with the company reps to consult about the EOIs for redundancy results and the binding offers that have been accepted, those that have not and what the process is from here on the issues of Special Leave without Pay and temporary conversion from Full time to…
Bain Capital confirmed as new owner of Virgin Australia The Second Creditors Meeting was held this morning and creditors overwhelmingly voted to endorse the sale of Virgin Australia to new owner Bain Capital. This is a significant milestone for ASU members at Virgin as it means the company will continue to exist and continue to…