The Tabcorp – ASU On Course and Special Events EBA is due to be renegotiated and as always the ASU is seeking your feedback on the issues important to you. The current agreement expires at the end of June this year and the ASU is keen to get started on renegotiations on your behalf. We…
Jetstar staff have voted overwhelmingly to endorse the ASU EBA 5 deal negotiated and recommended by the ASU’s Jetstar National Negotiating Team. The external company conducting the ballot, Elections Australia Pty Ltd, today declared that ASU EBA 5 has been approved by the majority of staff. 84.87% of staff who voted, voted in favour of the Agreement A big thank…
Recently the Victorian Off Course Agency Association approached the ASU to commence discussions regarding introducing an Enterprise Agreement (EA) to staff. An EA is a document that contains all your legally binding pay and conditions at work. How this came about Last year VOCAA made an application to make your old Enterprise Award a new…
ASU members at Menzies have voted overwhelmingly to endorse the EBA deal for staff at Sydney and Melbourne negotiated by the ASU’s National Negotiating Team, following workplace meetings explaining the offer. As a result the ASU is recommending the EBA to ASU members for their approval. The ASU has advised Menzies management that the deal…
Following further representations to Qantas by the union, the ASU has received confirmation that Qantas will honour the 6 month exclusion period for staff who have been made redundant from Australian call centres who are seeking re-employment within the Qantas Group. This comes after changes to Qantas group policy at the end of 2014 which…
It’s been an endurance event, but after lengthy negotiations we finally have an agreement which ASU members have endorsed in meetings across Australia. The proposed EBA provides a number of significant improvements in some important terms and conditions of our work. As ASU members now endorse the EBA we encourage all staff to vote ‘YES’…
The ASU was recently advised that the company intended to stop people giving away shifts that they did not want or could not work, this was going to commence in approximately 3 weeks’ time. We were also advised that the company was considering limiting the number of shift swaps that people could do as well…
As you would all be aware by now Dnata representatives have decided to attempt to bypass the union by putting the EBA out for a vote of employees without reaching agreement with the Unions. Effectively this is saying to you that they no longer have an interest in negotiating with you or listening to anything…
Your ASU National negotiating team met with AaE management in Sydney on 26th February 2015 for our 4th meeting and despite promises that the company would be ready to talk seriously about your agreement we had just another meeting going over old ground about our claims with little response or offers from the company. It…
Today Victorian ASU Officials, Delegates and rostering committee representatives met with Qantas to try to settle issues associated with the company’s decision to change shift work rosters in Melbourne for the last 4 months of the operation at the Camberwell call centre. Based on feedback from ASU members to date, the ASU sought to resolve…
Your ASU national negotiating team for Toll Dnata Passenger services last met with the company on 12th February 2015 after a number of delays in finalizing a meeting date. The company representatives came only with a prepared statement about the problems in the company with little ability to negotiate anything but with plenty of excuses…
On Wednesday 11 February your representatives met with the company to continue the EBA negotiations. Whilst we were hopeful of moving towards finalising the EBA it would appear that the company wanted to take an adversarial approach towards the discussions. The Unions and your delegates quickly formed the view that the company was not there…