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The Spark and Cannon EBA will expire on 21 April 2015 and bargaining will soon commence for a new agreement. The ASU is seeking to renegotiate your Agreement, update the terms and conditions and ensure wages at least keep pace with cost of living increases. UPDATE: Survey extended to 28…
Public Services Bulletin - October 2014
03 November 2014
This edition contains a summary of blog items published by Greg McLean in the previous calendar month. Items cover the areas of local government, energy and water, rail and public transport, international news including trade agreements, privatisation and general public sector matters. The articles all relate to the blog…
Time to put your best deal on the table Jetstar
31 October 2014
Your Jetstar National Negotiating Team met with the company on 15th September 2014 and 21st October 2014 to see if we can get any closer to finalizing an agreement. The company continues to say that they want an 18 month pay freeze so that no pay rise would be payable…
Growing inequality is not inevitable, the time to act is now
31 October 2014
Oxfam has just released a new report "Even it up: time to end extreme inequality". The report aligns very closely with PSI's analysis of inequality and we are happy to endorse it, because it sends a profound message about a social system where wealth increases massively but poverty and misery…
ASU delegates and officials met with Qantas Telephone Sales and HR management in Melbourne on 29th October 2014 for an update on the redeployment, redundancy and other issues arising from the closure of Brisbane and Melbourne Centres. As usual there were more questions than answers and disappointingly there is still…
Senators pledge to reject Govt’s redundancy cuts
30 October 2014
Australian unions have enthusiastically welcomed today's commitment by the cross bench Senators to vote against the Abbott Government's unfair changes to the Fair Entitlements Guarantee. A delegation of workers who have recently been made redundant, accompanied by officials from the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) and the Textile Clothing and…
Unions push for the right to domestic violence leave
28 October 2014
Unions are pushing to give millions of Australian workers the right to access domestic violence leave. The ASU has been active and innovative on this front since 2010 when our Union won the first clause providing domestic violence leave in Australia. ACTU President Ged Kearney said paid domestic violence leave…
At today's Qantas AGM in Melbourne the Australian Services Union (ASU) will be carrying the message of over 3500 Australians who are calling on Qantas to keep their call centre jobs in Australia. "Despite making promises that after the closure of the Melbourne and Brisbane call centres and the loss…
ASU to attend Qantas AGM today to tell Joyce and the Board what Australians think about how they are running the Flying Kangaroo
24 October 2014
ASU Assistant National Secretary Linda White and a delegation of ASU members and officials will attend the Qantas AGM today in Melbourne. They will be armed with over 900 messages from Australians expressing dismay at Qantas management. The 2014 Annual General Meeting of Qantas Airways Limited will be held at…
Unions have been left with little confidence James Hardie will honour its responsibility to compensate asbestos victims following a meeting with the company this week. ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver met senior management on Monday to discuss concerns about a shortfall in the Asbestos Injuries Compensation Fund set up to pay…