Emirates employees will now have the Enterprise Agreement for voting on from the 12th to 18th September 2014. The ASU/ALAEA understands that while the voting process has not gone as smoothly as it should have it is of the utmost importance that the proposed enterprise agreement is scrutinised, and the pitfalls and shortfalls of the…
Yesterday the Fair Work Commission held a conciliation conference between the ASU and Qantas in relation to the union’s application of a dispute over the Hello World Incentive Scheme. Qantas management as your employer were represented and representatives of Hello World also attended the hearing. Commissioner Johns heard the ASU concerns about the incentive scheme…
The ASU and RACV attended a Commission hearing late on Tuesday afternoon to deal with the Unions request for RACV to provide a series of documents relating to the financial impact on employees of the proposed change to the Annualised Hours pay system. RACV would not agree to provide these details. Following discussions between the…
As mentioned in our last newsletter, Commissioner Roe at the Fair Work Commission made a ruling that asked the parties to provide a series of written submissions by certain dates throughout early and mid September. Then final hearing dates for the arbitration of this dispute have been set down for late September. The schedule the…
The ASU has secured full time employment for members at Melbourne Airport. As you would be aware the ASU has been arguing for more full time positions at Melbourne airport. Your rosters clearly identified that there was a justifiable and sustainable need for more full time employees and the ASU has vigorously argued that the…
The ASU has commenced discussions for conversions from Part time to full time at Melbourne airport. As you would be aware the ASU initially put forward an EBA claim for some additional full time lines in various locations. However, due to the elongated negotiations since the Qantas groups decision to slash 5000 jobs and freeze…
The ASU has recently met with your management to raise concerns over your rosters. We have highlighted that it is not acceptable that you only receive your rosters a week in advance and that there appears to be a level of favouritism. Current rosters not good enough The ASU has clearly put on the table…
After months and months of seeing long serving loyal colleagues leave the Qantas Group because of the mismanagement of the CEO and the Qantas Board, today’s news of a record statutory $2.8 billion loss at Qantas is still a shock. Many ASU members have expressed their dismay at what has been going on at Qantas…
During the EBA negotiations held on Wednesday 28 August that was mediated by the Fair Work Commission Emirates said that they intended to put the EBA (that was previously overwhelmingly rejected by employees) out again to be voting on. Emirates say that they’ll put the EBA out from Friday 5 September until Thursday 11 September. The ASU…
ASU Delegates and officials met with Menzies management on 19th August 2014 for our 6th meeting about the passenger services agreements in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. We were able to feed back into the meeting the views expressed by a number of members at our recent meetings which helped us sort through exactly the response…
On 21 August 2014, the ASU National Negotiating team met with StarTrack management for further discussions about the new Enterprise Agreement. These discussions were very productive and we have agreed that the AAE Retail Agreement should form the basis of the new Agreement. AAE Retail or the Clerks Award There has been some difference in…
On 18th August 2014 ASU delegates and officials met with Virgin Australia airport and contact centre management for one of our regular meetings to talk about the implementation of our Agreement and about issues that have been in progress since our last meeting – here is a summary of what was discussed: Payroll review As…