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Virgin Australia workers are being pressured into accepting an “effective wage cut” as the airline seeks to push through an unendorsed Enterprise Bargaining Agreement amid a communications leak that raises serious questions about senior management’s conduct as negotiations were taking place. A vote, which opens on Thursday, comes as Microsoft…
You are invited to a member’s meeting on Tuesday, 28 March, to discuss Virgin Australia’s offer. We will summarise VA’s current offer compared to your current working conditions. Your negotiating teams have made significant progress from being the airline from its initial position to the offer below. As a collective,…
Your ASU team have been negotiating your new enterprise agreement with VA for over seven months, and VA is still not putting fair offers on the table. The Airline’s pay offer is 9% over three years (not a minimum of 13.6% as VA describes). In 2022, many VA workers may…
The ASU contacted Virgin for an update on the impact of the Brisbane lock down this week who have confirmed there will be no material changes to Guest Services rostering at any port. Key Points The key points are, as follows: A number of flights to/from BNE in the next…
In an astonishing flip on the commitments Virgin has made to ASU members, including meaningful consultation with the ASU before engaging ANY Supplementary Labour, Virgin admit they initiated discussions with Hoban to start working in MEL and ADL by Good Friday! The ASU immediately called for an urgent meeting with…
ASU delegates and officials have met with Virgin to hear their proposal to engage casual Supplementary Labour to address staff shortages in 3 ports: BNE/MEL/ADL. Virgin are not proposing to engage casuals in SYD at this time because the current number of Team Members who are available to work at…
ASU delegates and officials have been meeting regularly with Virgin to deal with member concerns about shift cancellations due to lockdown/border closures and other resourcing issues. While we all hope that there will be no further snap lockdowns and border closures, and that Virgin’s flying schedule will become more predictable,…
ASU members are very concerned about recent announcements regarding redundancies in Virgins Corporate and Head Office teams. Yesterday, Virgin announced 350 redundancies at its Corporate and Head Office in Brisbane. We condemn this decision and the way the announcement was handled. The company made the announcement before notifying the ASU…
ASU members have raised a number of urgent concerns about the way rosters are being managed in local ports. ASU officials met with Virgin today to raise your concerns including issues with unworkable roster patterns, unpredictable hours of work, ability to opt out of rosters, as well as recognition of…
We can confirm today that VA Guest Services employees have overwhelmingly endorsed the ASU Agreement. WELL DONE! Congratulations to ASU members for standing up against the severe cuts management had wanted to impose. Because we worked together we were able to: Save automatic progression! All existing employees will continue to…
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