As in previous years the ASU is sending representatives to the Qantas AGM to ask some hard questions… We don’t expect to be the only ones given the record loss Qantas has sustained. We expect many shareholders will question how CEO Alan Joyce and the Board can hold their jobs. This year the Qantas Annual…
Your ASU reps recently met with Qantas and Helloworld in relation to the union’s application of a dispute over the QBT incentive scheme. Discussions focused on the directions outlined by Commissioner Johns on the 9th of September. This included consultation with the ASU regarding the contents of a joint communiqué to be issued by Qantas…
ASU members would be forgiven for thinking that the telephone sales strategy is being made up as they go along. The conflicting information we have been given since the closure of the Melbourne and Brisbane centres was announced certainly supports this contention and the meeting between your ASU reps and the company on 23rd September…
The ASU has been advised this morning by Qantas that it is now their intention to put more telephone sales jobs in Auckland instead of in Hobart as was initially promised. Now Qantas says that the company is “segmenting” the business so that Hobart will become the “Premium Service Call Centre” while Auckland will be…
ASU delegates and officials met with Qantas management for another update on Friday 12 September 2014 in Melbourne. We discussed a range of issues including the update on the EOI numbers, Hobart recruitment, training, career transition support, the redeployment process, and Melbourne – Brisbane transfers. The company is putting in place a range of career…
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…
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…
Yesterday the Australian Services Union notified a dispute with Fair Work Australia because of concerns about the performance Management & Productivity scheme at QBT. We have done this because despite the union’s attempts to raise concerns with the proposed scheme, JTG management have seen fit to roll out this scheme including performance management measures for…
Roster Optimisation and Redundancies on the way at Airports ASU delegates and officials met with Qantas airport management in Sydney on 19th August 2014 for a discussion about the Company’s roster optimisation work and decisions in relation to the acceptance of the Expressions of Interest (“EOIs”) in redundancy from customer service staff at airports. As…
Today your ASU representatives met with Qantas to discuss the outcome of the EOI process. We were provided with a high level overview of the EOI’s. What’s clear is only a small number of people have nominated to transfer to Hobart, which falls well below the 80 staff Qantas had originally predicted would transfer. Some…
We have some welcome news. Late last night the Abbott Government backed down from their push to open up foreign ownership of Qantas by repealing the Qantas Sale Act. There was no support in the Senate for amendments that could have seen thousands of jobs off-shored. This is your win. In March this year, ASU…
Qantas has now decided to extend the time frame for all EOIs that are being sent out today in telephone sales to 1st August 2014. Earlier in the week the company had proposed that there would be 2 cut off dates for the EOIs – 4th July 2014 and 1st August 2014 if staff wanted…