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The Australian Services Union is outraged by the treatment of passengers, including Australian citizens prior to boarding a flight from Doha to Sydney. Thirteen Australian women were strip searched and subjected to invasive physical examinations without their consent. ASU Assistant National Secretary Emeline Gaske said the treatment of women passengers…
ASU meets with Bain to demand return to good faith bargaining
20 October 2020
On Monday afternoon the ASU, along with other VA unions, met with Bain and Jayne Hrdlicka following last week’s shocking exit of Paul Scurrah as CEO (following months of promises to the contrary), and rumours about the airline moving to a low cost model. We demanded they come clean on…
Bain Capital must honour its promises to Virgin workers
15 October 2020
The Australian Services Union has called on Bain Capital to confirm it is not seeking to turn Virgin Airlines into a low-cost carrier and to honour its promises to Virgin workers after long standing CEO Paul Scurrah was moved aside today. Australian Services Union Assistant National Secretary Emeline Gaske said…
Bain must come clean on plans for Virgin
14 October 2020
The ASU is incredibly concerned with today’s media reports that Bain are abandoning their commitment to keep Virgin a full service airline, supporting a workforce of 6,000. We have today sought an urgent briefing from Bain seeking clarification on the commitments Bain gave to the workforce and to the public…
Flight Centre closes EOIs today
13 October 2020
Your ASU wrote to Flight Centre (FCTG) about placing untenable conditions on your entitlement to a redundancy.A copy of our letter to Victoria Harris is attached to this Bulletin. ASU may dispute Flight Centre’s approach Flight Centre have not responded to our letter (copy attached). Instead, the Company wrote to…
Are redundancies available or not, Flight Centre?
08 October 2020
Your ASU arranged a meeting with company HR representative Victoria Harris. We wanted to give the group every opportunity to explain their worrying change process to a new store structure. Victoria Harris has confirmed the following details about their Expression Of Interest (EOI) process to fill the following estimates of…
ASU members have Saved Equal Pay! On Tuesday night the Federal Government announced that they would lift base funding in Department of Social Services Grants to cover the costs for Equal Pay wages won by ASU members in 2012. From 1 July 2021, the Federal Government has committed to more…
Federal Budget 2020 – ASU member exclusive update
08 October 2020
The Morrison Federal Government on Tuesday handed down the 2020 Federal Budget. So what does it all mean for you? Your union, the ASU has had experts locked away in the Government’s budget lockup so that we can bring you exclusive insight and analysis about what the budget means for…
You will have been called to attend a briefing from the Company yesterday to hear their announcement. We know that you may be concerned about this announcement, but we want to assure you that your union is with you throughout this process. A large number of Flight Centre employees have…
JobKeeper Changes & Extended Scheme
01 October 2020
The Federal Government has made some important changes to JobKeeper. The good news is that the JobKeeper Payment scheme has been extended until 28 March 2021 to ensure more Australians can stay in jobs and more businesses can survive the economic fallout of this pandemic. However, the bad news is…