As employees will be aware, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ordered that the Australian Electoral Commission (“AEC”) run a secret ballot at Birdlife Australia to determine once and for all whether a majority of employees at Birdlife would like an Enterprise Agreement to be negotiated. The lead up The ASU conducted a majority support…
As mentioned in yesterdays information update an announcement was imminent about the appointment of an Administrator to work through the affairs of the Call Active business collapse. An announcement was made today that SV Partners have been appointed to the Administrator role. Some basic details about who SV Partners are can be obtained from their…
As all Union members will now know Call Active management announced late on Friday afternoon that the business would fold immediately and that as a result workers would be out of work and out of pocket on their basic employment entitlements. This is outrageous!!! Employees at Call Active rightfully feel let down as clearly the…
On 19 & 20 November 2015 Qantas Holidays employees were advised that the defined benefit superannuation fund would be closed on 29 February 2016. The ASU has met with management to be briefed on the changes and raise questions about the impact of the changes on our members. You will now have received an estimate…
You will know by now that Virgin has decided to implement a change that will see ground operations employees work an additional 6 hour shift in each 9 week roster cycle. This was because it was identified that for some time employees had not been working the correct amount of average weekly hours. Your ASU…
The ASU is aware that employees have expressed concern at the time taken to obtain approval from Government of the proposed 2015 Enterprise Agreement. After all, negotiations concluded some 10 weeks ago. Following a little applied pressure, the ASU is at least now able to communicate that the review process has reached the final stage.…
The ASU’s majority support application was heard by the Fair Work Commission on Friday 6th of November. The ASU had collected sufficient signatures to demonstrate that a strong majority of employees based in Melbourne wanted the ASU to bargain for an Enterprise Agreement at Birdlife Australia. However, we were only able to obtain a bare…
Great news! Your EBA has been voted up by 175 yes votes to zero no votes. That’s a resounding acceptance of the new EBA. Thank you to everyone that managed to vote. The ASU will now work closely with the company to get the EBA lodged in the Fair Work Commission as quickly as possible…
Whilst we understand that the move to T4 is imminent the ASU and your representatives are still liaising with both Jetstar and Qantas in the hope that a sensible outcome can be arrived at in relation to the staff bus and parking arrangements once Jetstar relocate to T4. This work is ongoing and we ask…
Welcome to the ASU’s monthly Know Your Rights series. ASU members at AVI have bargained hard over the years to secure above Award workplace entitlements. However, it’s one thing to lock entitlements into an Enterprise Agreement and another to make use of those entitlements. The ASU knows that the first step to living an EA…
On Tuesday 27 October the ASU took AaE to the Fair Work Commission over its proposal to change your pay cycle. We also handed AaE the signatures of 111 employees who had signed our petition calling for the change to be delayed. The Commissioner expressed concern about the changes being rushed before Christmas, and requested…
Your ASU representatives met with representatives of Jetstar on 28 September to discuss a whole range of issues that are of concern to ASU members. We have continued discussions with Jetstar in the last few weeks to try to resolve some of the issues. We are pleased that we have been able to resolve a…