A better than expected profit but no movement on the EBA offer!
We would have thought it was a thorn in Air New Zealand's side that on the same day we were negotiating with Air New Zealand they forecasted a $200 million annual profit for the 2003 year. This followed the company posting a $30.4 million profit up from a $51.8 million loss last year. Who made these profits possible? You did!
01 November 2002 [full story]
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A new offer but little change
Your Malaysia Airlines EBA negotiating team of Jo Gellel from Brisbane, Naomi Arrowsmith and Dom Rowe from the ASU NSW Services Branch Office met on Tuesday 25 January 2005 with Malaysia Airlines Management represented by Nicole Hewartson, Salleh Tabrani, Chong Min Sin and Kelly Knowles from the Australian Industry Group.
01 February 2005 [full story]
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A resounding “NO” vote at Singapore Airlines
Over the last ten days 261 Singapore Airlines employees voted in the Enterprise Bargaining Agreement ballot. Alan Blair management rep, Kathy Sullivan Sydney Airport ENT rep, and Dom Rowe ASU representative observed the counting of votes on Friday 15 April at 11 am.
18 April 2005 [full story]
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ASU Launches United Airlines Survey
As the ASU's EBA with United Airlines is to expire in December we are surveying staff to determine what claims we should make this bargaining round. A copy of the survey can be downloaded from this site.
13 November 2001 [full story]
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ASU challenge Malaysia EBA vote
After careful examination of the information to hand the ASU has decided to challenge any certification of the Malaysia Airlines Certified Agreement on the basis that a valid majority of employees did not vote in favour of the EBA in the recent ballot conducted by the Company.
12 April 2005 [full story]
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ASU ready to bargain at Garuda
ASU members at Garuda have concluded an extensive round of assessment on issues they wish addressed in the new collective agreement.
24 July 2006 [full story]
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ASU recommends Yes vote at Malaysia Airlines
After extensive consultation, ASU members at Malaysia Airlines have agreed to accept the Malaysia Airlines offer to settle our long running EBA Negotiations.
21 September 2005 [full story]
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ASU recommends a NO vote at Emirates
As everyone at Emirates now knows, the Company put out a non union EBA for vote by staff on Wednesday 22 March 2006. The Company did this without coming back to staff justifying their offer or even asking for feedback or engaging in negotiation with staff or your Union.
28 March 2006 [full story]
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ASU seeks Commission’s intervention
Following several unsuccessful attempts by the ASU to revive negotiations for a new EBA at Air Niugini, the ASU referred the matter to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) on Thursday to seek intervention and assistance in convening further meetings. The matter was heard by Commissioner Richards, who recommended that meetings be convened in Brisbane at 10.00am on 16 April and 9 May 2003 between Union representatives and the Company. However, he also made it clear that the AIRC would be very reluctant to intervene in the substance of the negotiations.
15 April 2003 [full story]
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ASU taking industrial action at Air NZ for a better deal
Most of you would have now attended meetings around the country with your JCC employee representatives and organisers from the ASU.
15 January 2003 [full story]
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Air NZ Christmas Wrap Up: EBA meetings commencing 6th January 2003
In our last bulletin “There will be no present under your tree from Air NZ this Christmas” we called for staff meetings around the country to decide what to do about the breakdown of the EBA negotiations. Your representatives have advised that over Christmas you are either operationally flat out or on skeleton staff depending on the department that you work in. Because it is extremely important that you have your say in what we do from here we thought it best to commence the meetings the week starting the 6th of January 2003.
23 December 2002 [full story]
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Air New Zealand - Explaining Industrial Action, we need to decide our next steps
With negotiations reaching a critical stage at Air New Zealand many people have asked us to explain how they can take legal industrial action if this is the only way to get a better deal from Air NZ. The law can be complex so here is what we hope is a simple explanation.
08 November 2002 [full story]
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Air New Zealand EBA certified
The Air New Zealand EBA was approved by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission on 5 September 2005 after 82% of the staff who cast a vote in the ballot for the EBA voted yes.
05 September 2005 [full story]
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Air New Zealand EBA negotiations begin
The Air New Zealand Employee Negotiating team met with company representatives in Sydney on Thursday, 10 February 2005 to start discussions for a new Enterprise Bargaining Agreement for the company’s Australian based staff. The current EBA expired on 31 December 2004.
14 February 2005 [full story]
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Air New Zealand employees vote YES for a good deal
Negotiations have concluded at Air New Zealand with a vote of employees yesterday, 10 September 2008. An overwhelming majority of employees have voted in favour of varying the current Agreement, keeping WorkChoices out and keeping the Union in!
11 September 2008 [full story]
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Air New Zealand goes to the ballot
Finally the 14 days are over and the voting can begin on the proposed EBA. Air New Zealand employees have had the required 14 days to consider the proposed EBA and are now being asked to vote on whether to accept the proposal as endorsed by the employee representatives and the ASU.
22 April 2003 [full story]
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Air New Zealand – parties go into the bunker to find solution
In our last bulletin we advised that a new EBA offer from Air New Zealand required further consideration before we could put a response.
Since that bulletin we have had further discussions with the Company and are confident that we are soon to reach an agreement.
27 March 2003 [full story]
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Air Niugini Enterprise Agreement 2009
After several months of negotiations the ASU negotiating team have negotiated a draft agreement with management.
25 May 2010 [full story]
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Air Niugini agreement negotiations commence
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 the ASU negotiating team met with Air Niugini Management representatives to discuss the ASU’s Agreement claims and related issues.
03 October 2007 [full story]
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An agreement worth recommending at United Airlines
Following from the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) hearings and further negotiations with United Airlines on 27 and 31 August 2004 your National Negotiating Team have been able to reach an agreement with the company which we are prepared to recommend to members. This deal is far superior to the deal that was voted down by staff on 16 August 2004.
01 September 2004 [full story]
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Are Air NZ Finally Listening?
After overwhelming support for our industrial action across Australia on 25 & 26 February 2003 Air New Zealand have now approached us to hold a meeting with the JCC on Tuesday 4 March 2003 in Sydney.
26 February 2003 [full story]
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Bah Humbug – Malaysia Airlines Make Cargo Staff Redundant
After two years of considering what to do with its Australian Cargo Operation, Malaysia Airlines has chosen Christmas 2003 to make its loyal and long serving staff in Cargo in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane redundant and shift the business to a new Company.
15 December 2003 [full story]
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Being union makes the difference
Last Friday 15 August 2003, Singapore Airlines Management called an urgent teleconference with your ENT representatives to discuss a change in their proposals for cuts to the company special payment and staff cuts that had been unveiled to staff and the ENT on 6 August 2003.
19 August 2003 [full story]
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Company fails to show up
Air Niugini has not co-operated with the ASU’s attempts to seek a reasonable EBA outcome through meetings that were organised at the Australian Industrial Relations Commission on 16 April and 9 May 2003. In fact, the company did not even see the second meeting as important enough to send a representative, leaving it up to their agent Livingstones to deliver the bad news.
21 May 2003 [full story]
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Disappointing Management Offer
Singapore Airlines management tabled an offer at the JCC meeting on 17 September 2003 that included a 12 month wage freeze, a 0.9% fall in real wages and an erosion of conditions. The offer included:
18 September 2003 [full story]
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Does United Airlines get the message?
On 18 November 2003, ASU Assistant National Secretary Linda White and ASU Organiser Lynette Kirk met with United Airlines HR managers Linda Clinch and Tara Sargis for the first of the programmed meetings to negotiate the new United Airlines Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA).
19 November 2003 [full story]
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Don’t Blame the ENT for Vote at Singapore Airlines
Singapore Airlines management would have you believe that it is the ENT’s fault that Option A is going to vote. This is incorrect. Your ENT honestly told the company the results of our vote and the fact that the majority of staff wanted neither of the company’s imposed options. We told the company that they could put it out to vote if they wanted to, as they did not believe us, but we also said that we did not recommend this – we thought the best option was to negotiate a deal.
08 March 2005 [full story]
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EBA Talks Set to Begin Again at United
On Thursday, 23 May 2002, UNCLE received a letter from Stephen Pearse responding to our request for a meeting of the entire JCC committee (including the member of the team who was asked to step down) and all senior management staff – Stephen Pearse included.
28 May 2002 [full story]
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EBA claim served on United Airlines
After extensive consultation with staff over the past couple of weeks a claim that has been voted on by staff has been served on United Airlines.
15 December 2003 [full story]
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EBA negotiations commence at Malaysia Airlines
Following many delays the Malaysia Airlines negotiations for the next EBA commenced on Thursday 14 October 2004 with meetings set down for each Thursday until agreement is reached.
19 October 2004 [full story]
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EBA negotiations commence at Singapore Airlines
The Employee Negotiating Team at Singapore Airlines met with the company on 9 December 2004 in Sydney to commence negotiations for our next Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA). Our current EBA expires on 4 March 2005 so both company and ENT are aiming to try and finalise our next EBA before the current one expires.
15 December 2004 [full story]
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EBA negotiations continue at Malaysia
At the EBA negotiations held on Thursday 25 November 2004 your ASU representatives Tara Stannard from NSW, Jo Gellel from Queensland and Naomi Arrowsmith from the ASU NSW Branch Office presented to Malaysia Airlines (MAS) the bottom line wage claim from staff.
30 November 2004 [full story]
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EBA negotiations kick off at Singapore Airlines
Your Employee Negotiating Team met on 3 February 2005 with the company representatives at the Singapore Airlines JCC to start discussions for a new Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) to replace the current EBA which expires on 4 March 2005.
08 February 2005 [full story]
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ENT Recommend Singapore EBA Offer
On Thursday 9 October 2003 your ENT members met with Singapore Airlines and believe that we have an EBA offer which we can recommend to staff.
14 October 2003 [full story]
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ENT recommend a “NO” vote
After careful consideration of the best course of action for the staff the Singapore Airlines Employee Negotiating Team (ENT) are recommending that employees vote “NO” to the EBA which is currently circulating and which is to be formally voted on from 4 April to 15 April 2005.
23 March 2005 [full story]
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Emirates EBA changes sick leave entitlements
Yesterday in our bulletin about the Emirates EBA we highlighted a number of reasons why staff should vote "no" when voting commences for the new EBA on 4th April 2006. Let’s be clear though, the things that we highlighted are not the only ways the EBA is worse than the current Overseas Airlines Award conditions; there are more things that have been cut out or varied. The following are important changes in the EBA from what you previously had.
29 March 2006 [full story]
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Emirates EBA progress report from your ASU Team
Congratulations to everyone for speaking up! Last Tuesday's consultation meetings with the company about the EBA were very vocal with many members and staff staying focused on the main issues and asking the tough questions. Everyone's contribution was important to let the company know that you are serious, united and deserving of a good agreement. The petition, which was completed by staff around Australia, was also handed up during these meetings.
20 February 2006 [full story]
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Emirates EBA vote announced
Although the ASU recommended a “No” vote on 9th May, Emirates management advised staff that the majority of staff who voted had approved the Enterprise Agreement. As requested by our members, the ASU has asked Emirates for a breakdown of the results and we await this advice.
16 May 2006 [full story]
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Employers Propose Cuts To Award
The ASU has been notified by the major employer group representing the Overseas Airlines in Australia, the Australian Industry Group (AIG) that the employers propose to make major changes to the Overseas Airlines Award, the ASU Award that prescribes the wages and conditions in over 25 Overseas Airlines operating in Australia.
27 March 2003 [full story]
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Enough is enough – It is time for action at United Airlines
That is what the Australian based staff of United Airlines are saying and so late on Monday 23 August 2004 the ASU has notified the company and the Australian Industrial Relations Commission of the intention of ASU members to take protected industrial action at all United Airlines sites on Friday 27 August 2004 and Saturday 28 August 2004.
24 August 2004 [full story]
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First Round Victory at United Airlines
United Airlines management has now conceded that employee representatives must be allowed to attend the negotiations for the current enterprise agreement. This outcome is a victory for all staff who signed the ASU petition and who in meetings sent a clear message to the Company that excluding employees was not acceptable.
24 December 2003 [full story]
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Getting down and serious in bargaining at Air New Zealand
ASU Delegates, officials and management of Air New Zealand have got down to business commencing the talks for bargaining your new union collective agreement.
17 June 2008 [full story]
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Important reasons to vote no to Malaysia Airlines EBA
Last week, Malaysia Airlines circulated an EBA to staff for vote from 25 February 2005. Although the ASU has been made a party to this EBA, the ASU does not endorse the EBA. No-one from the ASU or your negotiating team saw this document before it was sent out.
16 February 2005 [full story]
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Industrial Action Notice tomorrow and Wednesday
In a leaked memo signed by Ralph Norris we have heard today that Air NZ middle management and senior management will give themselves a pay rise and performance bonuses effective and backdated to 1 February 2003. They claim this is part of a 12-month pay freeze.
24 February 2003 [full story]
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Issues to consider when voting on the Emirates EBA
Emirates has now signalled it has finalised an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) which it wants staff to vote on to determine whether it is acceptable.
17 February 2004 [full story]
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It's time for bargaining to begin at United Airlines
As you know the Company sent a letter to staff late last week outlining their proposed timetable and agenda for negotiations of your next Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA).
05 November 2003 [full story]
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It’s EBA Survey Time at Emirates Airline
The ASU Emirates Airline Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) is about to expire, so it is time to reach a new EBA.
14 November 2003 [full story]
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It’s EBA Survey Time at Malaysia Airlines
During March ASU delegates and representatives across Australia will be asking staff to fill out our Malaysia Airlines 2004 Bargaining Survey so we can get a clear indication about what staff want to achieve in the next Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) with Malaysia Airlines.
11 March 2004 [full story]
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It’s back to the bargaining table at United Airlines
ASU representatives, Linda White, Naomi Arrowsmith and Tracie Davison (from Sydney Airport) attended the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) yesterday after United Airlines asked the AIRC for an earlier listing for their proceedings to set aside the ASU’s bargaining period and to set aside our current EBA.
26 August 2004 [full story]
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It’s not over yet at Air New Zealand
It would have been a great day if we could have delivered an EBA offer from Air New Zealand to our members. It would have been ‘victory’ if as hoped the revised offer was likely to meet ASU member’s expectations and we could end this round of EBA negotiations and move on.
17 March 2003 [full story]
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It’s on again: Time to get ready to improve your wages and conditions
Meetings of ASU members will be held around the country shortly to begin preparations for the upcoming collective bargaining negotiations.
21 March 2002 [full story]
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It’s time to have a say at Singapore Airlines
Our current Enterprise Agreement (EBA) at Singapore Airlines expires on 4 March 2005. Your Employee Negotiating Team (ENT) now think it is a good time to conduct a survey of staff to decide what issues are important to us to put as claims this time around.
29 September 2004 [full story]
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It’s time to negotiate a new EBA at Emirates
Your wages and conditions at Emirates are contained in an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA). This EBA is due to expire on 31st December 2007.
10 December 2007 [full story]
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It’s time to vote in favour of EBA at Singapore Airlines
Singapore Airlines Staff should now have received the final version of the new EBA which has been circulated by the Company as part of the formal EBA voting process required under the Workplace Relations Act.
23 September 2005 [full story]
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Lunch Action makes a Meal of Air NZ
On Monday 20 January 2002 Air NZ staff across Australia took part in our Big Lunch action to send a clear message to Air NZ that it is time to come back to the Enterprise Bargaining negotiating table and put a fair offer on the table.
22 January 2003 [full story]
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Make Peace Not War – Air NZ
Despite repeated requests for a resolution to the ongoing and drawn out EBA negotiations Air New Zealand have failed to put a formal response and have missed the extended deadline put to the Company which passed on Friday 14th February.
19 February 2003 [full story]
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Make sure you vote for EBA reps at Malaysia
A vote is being conducted by Malaysia Airlines for two (2) staff representatives for the EBA negotiations and all staff are urged to cast a vote by the close of the ballot at 12noon, Tuesday 5 October 2004.
04 October 2004 [full story]
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Malaysia Airlines - Five meetings down
At the last Malaysia Airlines EBA Negotiations meeting the National Negotiating Team went through each of your claims and asked the Company what their position was on each of them. The response - no movement on any of your claims except for a move from 2.5 to 3% base rate increase p.a. This is less than current inflation rates and much less than our claim of 5% p.a.
07 November 2002 [full story]
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Malaysia Airlines - Where your negotiations are up to
We have now had three meetings with the Company; during which we have had to explain and justify our claim time a number of times. On Tuesday 17 September your Negotiating Team met with the Company for the third time and management finally delivered their claim.
25 September 2002 [full story]
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Malaysia Airlines Ballot Raises More Questions
The Malaysia Airlines EBA ballot was counted on March 07, 2005 and by the slimmest of margins was approved by the staff who voted in the ballot.
10 March 2005 [full story]
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Malaysia Airlines Drop Tradeoffs – It looks like a deal
Your representatives met with Malaysia Airlines in Sydney on Tuesday 19 November 2002 to try and finalise the details of the latest EBA.
25 November 2002 [full story]
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Malaysia Airlines offer not what is seems
The second meeting of EBA negotiations took place on Thursday 21 October 2004 with Malaysia Airlines (MAL) represented by Management and the Australian Industry Group.
26 October 2004 [full story]
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Malaysia Airlines staff say YES to a new varied agreement
The Malaysia Airlines Certified Agreement has been accepted by the staff as their new agreement for the next three years.
31 July 2009 [full story]
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Malaysia Airline’s management respond to staff claims
The much awaited response from Malaysia Airlines management to staff claims was received at the latest bargaining meeting on the 17 February 2009.
24 February 2009 [full story]
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Malaysia airlines staff say no to offer
At the EBA negotiations held on 4 November 2004 your ASU representatives Tara Stannard from Sydney, Jo Gellel from Queensland and Naomi Arrowsmith from the ASU NSW Branch Office explained to Malaysia Airlines (MAS) management and their representative the Australian Industry Group (AIG) that ASU members reject the offer as outlined to staff in a company memorandum dated 21 October 2004.
08 November 2004 [full story]
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Malaysia airlines staff want increments retained
At the EBA negotiations held on Friday 12 November 2004 your ASU representatives Tara Stannard from Sydney, Jo Gellel (via teleconference) from Queensland and Naomi Arrowsmith from the ASU NSW Branch Office put Malaysia Airlines staff claims for wage increases and conditions of employment over the life of the new Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) to Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Management and their representative the Australian Industry Group (AIG).
17 November 2004 [full story]
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Malaysia – Survey results are in!
The results from the recent Malaysia Airlines Enterprise Bargaining Survey have now been collated and the ASU delegates and representatives have met by teleconference to discuss what claims to recommend for this round of bargaining.
25 May 2004 [full story]
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Meetings at Emirates scheduled
Emirates have announced that they will be holding staff consultation meetings to hear your views for the upcoming EBA in the first week of January 2006.
23 December 2005 [full story]
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Minimum wage increase in Overseas Airlines Award
As of the 28 June 2004 the Overseas Airlines (Interim) Award 1999 has been varied by the ASU to take account of the 2004 Living Wage case.
29 June 2004 [full story]
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More reasons to vote "no" at United Airlines
The ASU delegates and National Negotiating Team representatives are recommending to United Airlines staff that they vote “NO” in the forthcoming EBA ballot. Voting starts on 4 August 2004 and will close at 10.00am on Thursday 12 August 2004.
26 July 2004 [full story]
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Negotiations at United Airlines Kick Off
After much tooing and froing, employee representatives have finally met with United Airlines management to commence negotiations for a new enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA).
The first meeting was on Wednesday 28 January 2004 and is to be quickly followed up with another meeting on Thursday 5 February 2004, so that we can have some real information to give to staff at our next report back meetings.
02 February 2004 [full story]
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Negotiations begin in earnest for Singapore Airlines new EBA
ENT members met with management on 19th December 2007 to discuss our Log of Claims and receive the Company’s claims. We were able to detail our claims and discuss the rationale and then hear the general response from the Company.
21 December 2007 [full story]
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Negotiations continue at Malaysia Airlines
Negotiations continued at Malaysia Airlines headquarters, Sydney, 12 March 2009. The focus of this meeting was to provide the feedback following the company road show and to pursue an agreeable outcome to wage increases in your agreement.
03 April 2009 [full story]
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No Response on the EBA from Malaysia Airlines
In order to get your feedback your representatives have been asking you what you think of the Malaysia Airlines offer, and if you are prepared to support the offer put to management by the Staff Representative Committee.
14 November 2002 [full story]
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No means Yes at United Airlines
United Airlines has confirmed that the majority of responses received back from employees about their two proposals for the EBA indicated that neither option was preferred by staff.
02 June 2004 [full story]
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Overseas Airlines Award classification structure finalised
After many years of consultation with ASU members and negotiation with the Overseas carriers, we have now successfully inserted a new skills based classification structure into the Overseas Airlines Award, the principal Award covering the operation of overseas carriers in Australia.
15 September 2005 [full story]
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Pre-poll shows you intend to vote No to the poor offer: now Air New Zealand goes on the hard sell
Last Friday Air New Zealand employee representatives received survey results that showed that the majority of staff who are covered by the agreement intend to vote No to the latest company offer.
18 November 2002 [full story]
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Preparations for Air New Zealand EBA negotiations begin
ASU representatives at Air New Zealand have commenced preparations for the negotiation of our next Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) with Air New Zealand by providing a survey for staff.
29 September 2004 [full story]
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Progress at the Air New Zealand bargaining table
A full day’s negotiation took place on 23 July 2008. A range of claims have been progressed and the update is reported below.
30 July 2008 [full story]
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Proposed EBA provides very few guarantees for staff at Malaysia Airlines
Voting is under way in your enterprise agreement. Some members have told their Union that they are confused by Malaysia Airlines (MAS) position and want clarification from the ASU.
02 March 2005 [full story]
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Ready, set, go! Negotiations set to begin.
Today, Linda White, (ASU - Assistant National Secretary), Vanessa Gandy (Syd Apt), Lyn King (Syd Apt) and Kristyn Thompson (ASU Airlines Branch Secretary) met with company representatives Michaela James and Stephen Pearse to settle how negotiations would begin and progress over the coming weeks.
20 December 2001 [full story]
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Removal of increments still on Malaysia’s agenda
At the EBA negotiations held on Friday 3 December 2004 Malaysia Airlines Management gave its response to staffs bottom line wage claim to your representatives Tara Stannard from NSW, Jo Gellel via teleconference from Queensland and Naomi Arrowsmith from the ASU NSW Services Branch Office.
06 December 2004 [full story]
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Second ballot required for Emirates Agreement
The announcement from HR Manager Marie Davis that the Emirates Enterprise Agreement was voted up occurred on Friday 21 April. On Monday 24 April Emirates sent an email to all staff advising that another ballot was necessary because the “ASU had threatened legal proceedings” because of “technical issues”. The ASU’s lawyers Slater & Gordon did write to Emirates on Friday about a number of significant concerns with the proposed Agreement. These were not mere “technical matters” but in the view of Slater & Gordon represented serious legal deficiencies.
26 April 2006 [full story]
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Singapore Airlines & Cargo asks for wages freeze and the staff say?
The vote has been counted in the Singapore Airlines and Cargo (SIA) ballot to freeze wages for the next two years. The ballot was counted by ENT members in head office Sydney commencing at 11am, Monday 6 April 2009 and observed by the ASU.
07 April 2009 [full story]
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Singapore Airlines - Talking Frankly
Following the EBA negotiations yesterday we interviewed the Employee Negotiating Team (ENT) at Singapore Airlines to find out what they thought they needed to achieve a good outcome for all Singapore Airlines Staff through this round of EBA. Here are their thoughts:
17 March 2003 [full story]
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Singapore Airlines - United We Stand
Singapore Airlines management at the last JCC claimed that wages in Singapore are less than they are here in an attempt to explain why Singapore based staff received a larger bonus.
05 September 2003 [full story]
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Singapore Airlines - Your EBA has now expired!
As of the 4th March 2003 Singapore Airlines staff are covered by an expired Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA). We must look to signing a new EBA as soon as possible.
Negotiations for a new EBA have been ongoing for 3 months now and we have held 4 meetings with the Company so far.
20 March 2003 [full story]
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Singapore Airlines EBA Update
You may be aware the Company has reduced some 358 flights per week system wide. ln the history of Singapore Airlines this is surely the most difficult time that we have seen.
11 June 2003 [full story]
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Singapore Airlines Staff vote YES on EBA
After a protracted EBA campaign Singapore Airlines staff have now resoundingly voted to accept the deal negotiated and recommended by the Employee Negotiating Team.
31 October 2003 [full story]
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Singapore Airlines has harsh plans for staff
Singapore Airlines management announced plans for staff cost reduction to the ENT yesterday (Wednesday 6 August 2003) which included:
07 August 2003 [full story]
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Singapore Airlines management walks away from EBA negotiations
In a surprising and disappointing move Singapore Airlines management advised the Employee negotiating team ( ENT) at yesterday’s meeting that they no longer wanted to negotiate with us and they now wanted to put their Option A proposal in a formal EBA document to be put to staff for a binding vote under the Workplace Relations Act. The company proposes to do this in the next couple of weeks.
28 February 2005 [full story]
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Singapore Airlines negotiations finally begin
The ENT/ASU met with the Management at the JCC forum yesterday. The ENT & ASU were keen to begin the real task of negotiating soon after the overwhelmingly No vote from staff.
22 April 2005 [full story]
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Singapore Airlines tries to suspend EBA negotiations
There has been almost 5 months of negotiations and all parties made a commitment to try to finalise the EBA negotiations this week with a meeting scheduled for today.
30 April 2003 [full story]
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Singapore ENT recommend a “NO” vote for EBA
Both the Employee Negotiating Team and the ASU representatives at Singapore Airlines are recommending a “NO” vote to the staff in the EBA ballot which opens on Monday 4 April 2005. The Australian Services Union does not endorse the Agreement that has been circulated and is strongly advising ASU members at Singapore Airlines to reject this EBA.
04 April 2005 [full story]
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Singapore JCC kicks off 2004
Happy New Year to all, we trust everyone at Singapore Airlines had a safe and fun Christmas break.
23 January 2004 [full story]
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Singapore survey results are in
Over the last few weeks we have conducted a survey in preparation for our negotiations for the next Singapore Airlines enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA). The results are now in and shortly we will be holding meetings to discuss the results and formulate our claims. The ENT has considered the results and will make recommendations at our meetings.
17 November 2004 [full story]
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Some progress on Air NZ EBA
A second meeting was held with Air New Zealand on Monday, 28 February 2005 to further discuss the settlement for our EBA for Australian based staff.
In this meeting we provided various information and draft clauses as promised including proposals on Salary Sacrifice, rostering committees, calculation of allowances and possible new allowance rates and superannuation choice. We also provided the company with details of comparative maximum redundancy payouts from other airlines, which showed that Air New Zealand is at the bottom of the maximum payments table.
02 March 2005 [full story]
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Special delivery from United Airlines
Did you all receive your letter at home from United Airlines? Wouldn’t it have been nice to have opened it and seen a thank you letter from the company for all the hard work that you have put in over the years for little or no reward?
08 April 2004 [full story]
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Staff Reject the Company’s Final Offer
The ASU has co-ordinated a series of meetings over the past few weeks to take a vote of staff on the Company’s offer for a proposed Agreement. This process took longer than expected due to difficulties experienced in reaching sufficient numbers of staff in some locations to adequately gauge their views.
18 July 2002 [full story]
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Staff call for a better proposal, Company yet to respond
Your UNCLE representatives, together with ASU officials, invited all United staff around the country to meetings last week to put the Company’s proposed collective agreement to you. Across all of these meetings we got a good turnout of staff.
17 May 2002 [full story]
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Survey results in at Emirates
The ASU has received a fantastic response to the survey. In each category the top resuts were as follows:
09 December 2003 [full story]
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The Latest Word on the United Negotiations
United Airlines negotiations have finally commenced for the 2002 EBA. At the JCC meeting held 4APR02, the Company and the Employee Representatives were able to start going through the proposed agreement clause by clause.
10 April 2002 [full story]
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The answer is “no” at United
As we await word from United Airlines about their proposed action after the closing date for Employee Feedback on 10 May 2004, ASU delegates and members have reported that overwhelming numbers of staff have indicated they will not accept either proposal.
13 May 2004 [full story]
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The first casualty is truth
In a recent bulletin to staff at Malaysia Airlines the company has included a number of inaccurate statements in an attempt to persuade staff to accept their substandard offer of settlement of the EBA.
16 December 2004 [full story]
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The word from U.N.C.L.E.
U.N.C.L.E. stands for the United Negotiating Committee Leading all Employees (union and nonunion).
We are nominated and voted for by staff to negotiate on your behalf as part of the Joint Consultative Committee for the 2002 EBA.
01 February 2002 [full story]
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There will be no present under your tree from Air New Zealand this Christmas
Your EBA negotiations recommenced today and it is our great regret to inform you that the company has not come to the table with a position that treats your concerns regarding the EBA process seriously. The company’s paid consultant opened the meeting to state that the company acknowledged that they received a letter from 75% of the staff who said that they wanted the negotiations to resume and that was why we were meeting today. The company said that they had given further consideration to the quantum of wages, redundancy and the vagueness of the classification structure.
19 December 2002 [full story]
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There’s still time to vote in United ballot
ASU representatives and delegates at United Airlines strongly urge all staff who have not cast their vote in the enterprise bargaining agreement ballot currently underway to do so today.
11 August 2004 [full story]
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Time to endorse our claim at Air NZ
After surveying staff at Air New Zealand for our claims for the next round of EBA negotiations the results are now in and meetings will be held to finalise our claims.
14 December 2004 [full story]
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Time to vote on United Airlines EBA
After meetings of employees across United Airlines it has been decided to put the proposed enterprise agreement out to staff for a vote.
27 September 2002 [full story]
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Together you can achieve anything! Ask ASU members at Garuda
The end of a long and sometimes fraught journey has arrived for ASU Delegates and members at Garuda Indonesia Airlines. Celebrations have occurred around the country as members received back-pay on the wage increase gained on the completion of the new Garuda Indonesia Union Collective Agreement 2007.
31 July 2007 [full story]
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Understanding Air New Zealand’s Final EBA Offer
The Air New Zealand Employee Negotiating Team (ENT) met with the Company again on 17 March 2005 and we have now received the Company’s final offer in settlement of our EBA claims.
23 March 2005 [full story]
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Union concerns need to be accommodated at Malaysia Airlines
In line with ASU members resolutions about how our EBA negotiations should continue, your Union made application to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) to seek the assistance of the Commission to facilitate the making of the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Enterprise Agreement.
14 February 2005 [full story]
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United Airlines - Final Offer
On 20 June 2002 the UNCLE Team met United Airlines management (including Stephen Pearse) to negotiate on the Company’s offer to staff in our EBA.
25 June 2002 [full story]
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United Airlines Claim Unanimously Endorsed
As you will by now all be aware we have been holding meetings at all work locations around the country presenting the results of the surveys and seeking your responses to the UNCLE recommendations for the EBA claim.
18 February 2002 [full story]
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United Airlines EBA Claim Presented
At the meeting of the JCC held at Sydney Airport on 21 February 2002, UNCLE and the ASU presented our claim for the 2002 EBA to the Company.
22 February 2002 [full story]
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United Airlines EBA vote – And the answer was NO
United Airlines staff have today overwhelmingly voted NO to the proposed EBA recommended by the company for this round of enterprise bargaining.
16 August 2004 [full story]
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United Airlines EBA: Finally approved in time for the New year
Yesterday the EBA ballot papers were counted in the presence of representatives from the company’s lawyers (Gadens), one representative from the Company, one from the ASU and one representative of the staff.
06 January 2003 [full story]
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United Airlines Fact File
Management from Head office are holding briefings in the next few days, staff need to be armed with some facts and questions about the Australian situation, so we have prepared some information to help understand what is going on.
15 March 2002 [full story]
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United Airlines Offer at a Glance
During our meetings with staff at United Airlines over the last week a number of people have asked us for a quick written summary on a few of the main claims by the Company in their latest offer.
17 March 2004 [full story]
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United Airlines Replies to Our Claims
At the JCC meeting held on Tuesday 5 March 2002, the company responded to the presentation of the UNCLE claim. Stephen Pearse on behalf of the company advised that while they felt that the UNCLE presentation was very well done, the company’s position was that the claim was incomplete, lacked credibility, was not substantiated and represented a 20% increase in costs.
07 March 2002 [full story]
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United Airlines staff just want a fair deal
United Airlines staff sent a clear message to management yesterday when 78% voted NO to accepting the inferior EBA offer.
17 August 2004 [full story]
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United EBA goes to vote – at long last
In mid September the ASU wrote to United management stating we were prepared for the document as negotiated to go to the vote.
09 December 2002 [full story]
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United EBA out to vote – Delegates recommend “NO” vote
United Airlines have posted copies of their final EBA proposal to all staff at home thus commencing the legal process required by the law to determine whether staff want this document as the new EBA or not.
19 July 2004 [full story]
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United Negotiations Update
You will no doubt have seen the letter from Michaela James dated 9 April 2002 regarding the EBA update. This letter contained a statement that following the JCC meeting held 4 April 2002, the employee and company representatives reached agreement in principle to many of the clauses.
18 April 2002 [full story]
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United in solidarity…
That is the message to United Airlines Australian employees from the Canadian unionists working at United Airlines who have also been negotiating with the company for a better pay deal.
02 August 2004 [full story]
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United responds to our call to meet
Late yesterday afternoon the ASU received a reply from Stephen Pearse to UNCLE’s 18 May 2002 correspondence to the Company requesting a JCC meeting. In this correspondence we also advised the Company of our intent to file a “Notice of Initiation of Bargaining Period” and of our request for Stephen Pearse to attend the next round of negotiation meetings.
22 May 2002 [full story]
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Update on United Airlines EBA
A second meeting was held with United Airlines management on 5 February 2004 about the new EBA.
11 February 2004 [full story]
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Voting begins at Malaysia Airlines
Voting is set to commence for the Malaysia Airlines Certified Agreement 2009. Your final agreement has been emailed to you along with explanatory notes on how the ballot is to take place. For staff with no email access, hard copies of the agreement and information have been provided.
22 July 2009 [full story]
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We are united – it is time to take action
After extensive meetings and briefings of staff by the ENT across Australia, Singapore Airlines staff have overwhelmingly endorsed the recommendation to take industrial action before the next meeting of the JCC which is scheduled for Thursday 9 October 2003.
01 October 2003 [full story]
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We must say no to United Airlines
This week United Airlines General Manger Stephen Pearse is going to discuss the company’s two proposals with staff in Sydney and Melbourne, with the view to getting staff to choose between two substandard EBA offers.
19 April 2004 [full story]
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Your views count in the AIRC
United Airlines have made applications to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) for the Termination of Certified Agreement in Public Interest After Nominal Expiry Date and to Suspend or Terminate Bargaining Period.
23 August 2004 [full story]
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82% vote for Air New Zealand EBA
The ballot of Air New Zealand staff has now been counted, and we are pleased to report that 82% of staff who cast a vote in the ballot voted YES to accept the ASU EBA.
29 July 2005 [full story]
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ASU members express anger at United
ASU Assistant National Secretary, Linda White, and ASU delegates will meet with United Airlines this afternoon to discuss United’s decision to sack its Australian workforce.
17 March 2006 [full story]
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Act Now! Labourstart campaign for Lufthansa’s GTS workers
Labourstart, an online news service for the international trade union movement has posted an online campaign today on their website in support of the ASU’s campaign for a better deal for staff at Lufthansa’s Global Tele Sales call centre in Melbourne, Australia. These staff are being forced out of their collective agreement onto inferior individual contracts.
13 July 2006 [full story]
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An offer to recommend at Malaysia Airlines
After almost a year of negotiations at Malaysia Airlines, your ASU negotiating team and your ASU delegates around the country now believe that we have an offer from the Company that we can recommend to members.
15 August 2005 [full story]
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Call centre staff face pay cuts & lost penalty rates under 'non-negotiable' AWA individual contracts
Eighty workers employed at Lufthansa's GTS Melbourne call centre face pay cuts, reduced penalty rates and a potentially discriminatory bonus scheme under 'non-negotiable' AWA individual contracts made under the Federal Government's new IR laws the Victorian Workplace Rights Advocate found today.
09 August 2006 [full story]
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Call to action: Lufthansa’s Global Tele Sales uses laws to cut wages
Call centre workers at Global Tele Sales (GTS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa Airlines, have been offered individual contracts (known as AWAs) under the new federal industrial relations laws that slash their existing wages and conditions. The call centre employs 80 people in Melbourne and is part of the Lufthansa multi-billion dollar network worldwide.
03 July 2006 [full story]
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Commission refuses to certify Malaysia Airlines EBA
ASU representatives appeared in the Industrial Relations Commission on Friday, 29 April 2005 challenging the certification of the Malaysia Airlines Certified Agreement on the basis that a valid majority of eligible employees did not vote in favour of the EBA in the recent ballot conducted by the company.
02 May 2005 [full story]
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Desperate IR Minister cranks up the propaganda & jettisons the facts
In a sign of his increasing desperation to keep his portfolio, the Minister for Workplace Relations, Kevin Andrews has jettisoned the facts and cranked up the propaganda war over the Howard Government's controversial IR laws says the ACTU.
10 August 2006 [full story]
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Emirates slow response on EBA
Emirates representatives have still not given us a clear response on when staff can expect a reply to your claims for a new EBA.
27 January 2006 [full story]
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Employee claims tabled at Malaysia Airlines
Bargaining continued anew in 2009 at Malaysia Airlines for a variation to your current enterprise agreement.
14 January 2009 [full story]
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First meeting proceeds for Emirates EBA
On Friday 6th January 2006 your Union reps Linda White and Jo Katsoulas met with representatives from Emirates Human Resources Alexandra Maddison, Marie Davis and David Bryant to discuss the claims and process for the next Emirates EBA. These claims were forwarded to Dubai in November 2005 after extensive surveys and consultation with our members and staff at Emirates about what is most important for you.
09 January 2006 [full story]
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German workers protest in Cologne about treatment of Aussie workers
A group of 15 people protested on Tuesday, the 15th of August 2006 in front
of the Lufthansa Headquarters in Cologne, Germany against the plans to cut wages of Global Tele Sales (GTS) call centre workers in Melbourne. This protest was in support of the continuing campaign of ASU members for a better deal at the call centre.
22 August 2006 [full story]
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Global campaign takes off - over 2000 emails in 12 hours
In the first 12 hours of the LabourStart Campaign in support of Lufthansa workers in Melbourne over 2000 emails have been sent to the call centre boss. These emails are in addition to the 650 Australian emails sent to the Company over the last week through the ASU's own campaign site.
14 July 2006 [full story]
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Global unions weigh in on fight with Lufthansa’s Global Tele Sales
Victorian call centre workers at Lufthansa’s Global Tele Sales (GTS) have been heartened by the international response to their plight. The ASU is affiliated to the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and Union Network International (UNI) who have both added their weight to the fight to have GTS enter negotiations for a fair workplace agreement in place of the disastrous Australian Workplace Agreement (AWA) foisted on workers recently.
29 August 2006 [full story]
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Important meeting held with Malaysia Airlines
On Thursday 12 May 2005 Assistant National Secretary Linda White met with MAS Regional Vice President Mr Salleh and three advisers to discuss how the deadlock in the Malaysia Airlines EBA could be broken, and how we could achieve the best deal possible for all concerned.
16 May 2005 [full story]
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Interviewing at Emirates
Last week we conducted face to face interviews with a number of staff at Emirates in a number of locations, we have also had a number of written surveys returned. Thank you to everyone who participated. It was great to hear your suggestions for the next EBA and to talk to you about possible negative impact of the Governments “WorkChoices” Legislation.
29 November 2005 [full story]
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Is it groundhog day at Singapore Airlines?
That’s how the Singapore Airlines Employee Negotiating Team initially felt when we met with the company on 22nd June 2005 and told them that 70.8% of staff had rejected the company’s latest 2 year deal for our EBA.
28 June 2005 [full story]
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It’s Official – 96% vote in favour of Singapore EBA
The results are now in for the Singapore Airlines EBA, and we are extremely pleased to report that 96% of the staff who cast a vote in the ballot, voted yes to accept the ASU EBA.
21 October 2005 [full story]
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Let’s get serious!
Singapore Airlines ENT members met with management on 6 February 2008. You will see from the tables below the general responses to both your claims and the claims from the Company.
07 February 2008 [full story]
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Lufthansa – it’s time to listen to the public
Over 5,400 people have sent a message to Lufthansa’s Global Tele Sales (GTS) in Melbourne in support of the call centre workers who are being asked to sign substandard individual contracts.
11 August 2006 [full story]
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Media Release: AWAs offer for 80 Melbourne workers – is it unlawful?
The Australian Services Union (ASU), Victorian Private Sector Branch, today called on John Howard to step in and protect approximately 80 Melbourne call centre workers from a potentially discriminatory AWA.
03 July 2006 [full story]
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Minimum wage increase in Overseas Airlines award
As of 5 July 2005 the Overseas Airlines (Interim) Award 1999 has been varied by the ASU to take account of the 2005 Living Wage case. Given the Federal Government’s proposed changes to industrial relations laws, this may well be the last such change to this award.
15 July 2005 [full story]
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Minister Andrews - wrong, wrong, wrong!
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews is trying to cover-up his own incompetence by using so-called independent legal advice relating to the AWA offered to 80 call centre staff in Melbourne.
10 August 2006 [full story]
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More talks at Malaysia Airlines
ASU Negotiators last met with Malaysia Airlines management on 7 July 2005 in a further effort to try and negotiate a new EBA for ASU members. As previously advised, the ASU had tabled a draft EBA document to the Company on 19 May 2005, and we had expected a response from management at this meeting.
03 August 2005 [full story]
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Negotiations in the final stage at Air New Zealand
Negotiations have progressed to the point where a final draft of the agreement for Air New Zealand is being compiled. The table below provides the latest on each of the key issues. Your JCC Rep and ASU Organiser will be holding meetings over the next week to take you through the details.
01 August 2008 [full story]
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Overseas Airlines Classification Survey 2003
The ASU has been notified by the major employer group representing Overseas Airlines in Australia, the Australian Industry Group (AIG) that the employers propose to make major changes to the Overseas Airlines Award. This is the ASU Award that prescribes the wages and conditions in over 25 Overseas Airlines operating in Australia and includes your airline.
08 April 2003 [full story]
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Singapore Airlines sells jobs to India
Monday 15 January 2007 saw the announcement to affected employees in Sydney, Perth and Auckland that their jobs were no longer required and that their work was to be outsourced to India.
19 January 2007 [full story]
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Solidarity delivers a better deal at Singapore
Sticking together has paid off for staff at Singapore Airlines after the company representatives increased and improved their EBA offer at our meeting on 4th July 2005.
11 July 2005 [full story]
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Some progress made at Singapore Airlines EBA negotiations
The Singapore Airlines ENT/ASU met again with the management team on Thursday, 28 April 2005. Not only did we have some discussions on our issues but when we suggested another range of dates for meetings to management, we secured regular negotiation dates from now until 17 June 2005.
02 May 2005 [full story]
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Some significant gains at Singapore Airlines
The ENT/ASU met with Singapore Airlines management on Thursday 12 May 2005 to continue negotiations with management over your wages and conditions. We have gained some important improvements to your conditions.
17 May 2005 [full story]
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The campaign against unfair AWAs at GTS
Since the release of the report by the Victorian Workplace Rights Advocate, Tony Lawrence, there has been a great deal of interest and support for the struggle against the unfair AWA offered by Global Tele Sales (GTS). The offering of the AWAs has also been a hot topic of debate in Federal Parliament.
14 August 2006 [full story]
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Time to vote on Singapore Airlines agreement
The Singapore Airlines Union Collective Agreement 2008 (Incorporating Singapore Airlines Cargo) has now been made available for all staff to read and understand prior to voting.
06 October 2008 [full story]
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Union deals are better deals
Many union members at Thai Airways International have contacted us during your negotiations for a new Enterprise Agreement. In the past 2 years the ASU has worked with our members on their Enterprise Agreements at Qantas Airways, Garuda, Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Rex, Jetstar, United Airlines, Eastern Australia Airlines, Australian Airlines, South Africa Airlines, KLM and Luthansa to name a few.
09 May 2005 [full story]
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Update on United Airlines sackings
ASU representatives met with Stephen Pearse and Linda Clinch of United Airlines on Thursday 6 April 2006 to further discuss the Company’s decision to outsource airport check-in and reservations in Australia.
11 April 2006 [full story]
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Update on campaign against unfair AWAs at GTS
The ASU recently asked the Victorian Government’s newly created office of the Workplace Rights Advocate to examine Lufthansa’s Global Tele Sales (GTS) AWAs. We have received an update on the investigation. The global campaign has been a great success.
20 July 2006 [full story]
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Victoria’s Workplace Rights Advocate investigates pay cuts at Lufthansa’s GTS
Victoria's Workplace Rights Advocate (WRA) has today announced an investigation into the individual contracts being offered by Lufthansa's Global Tele Sales (GTS) after concerns have been raised with the WRA by the Australian Services Union.
05 July 2006 [full story]
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Workplace Rights Advocate’s report slams GTS AWA
The Australian Services Union Victorian Private Sector Branch has today made public the report by the Workplace Rights Advocate, which severely criticised the AWA offered by Melbourne based call centre, Global Tele Sales (GTS).
09 August 2006 [full story]
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