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The saga with Qantas over JobKeeper continues. As we reported back in April 2020, Qantas believes that in a fortnight an employee did not work it can nevertheless use the $1500 fortnightly JobKeeper payment to pay for penalty rates from the preceding fortnight. We have maintained from the start that…
Update for ASU members at Emirates
02 July 2020
The ASU and ALAEA have met with Emirates to discuss the global announcements about changes to Emirates’ business model. In our initial discussion with the Company, HR representatives confirmed that you will be contacted by your manager or Supervisor by early next week. The Company should be able to tell…
What’s happening in Singapore Bargaining
01 July 2020
You might have seen an email from the Management Negotiating Team about the progress of bargaining for a new enterprise agreement (EBA) this week. It’s not surprising that there were some errors in management’s email about the position of the ASU and the ENT. They sent the email only an…
Rostering discussions will be an ongoing and evolving process. We will be talking with ASU members every step of the way. We’re meeting with Customer Services management The ASU have opened discussions with Virgin Australia about longer term solutions to rostering. Many ASU members have raised concerns about the time…
More Powerful Together: the Future of Virgin
26 June 2020
We know that the last couple of months have been incredibly stressful for you, but a successful bidder for Virgin - Bain Capital has now been announced and we are in the final stages of administration. This stage is the most critical – it’s where the administrator and the bidder…
The Australian Services Union has urged the Federal Government to meet with Virgin Australia’s successful bidder Bain Capital and unions representing aviation workers as soon as possible to secure a plan for the airline’s survival. Australian Services Union Assistant National Secretary Linda White today welcomed the news that Bain would…
Qantas job losses premature and must be reversed
25 June 2020
The Australian economy cannot afford a significant contraction of the aviation industry and the Federal Government must stand up for workers’ jobs in the wake of Qantas’ devastating announcement of 6000 job cuts. Australian Services Union Assistant National Secretary Linda White today urged Qantas management to reverse its decision on…
Workers have convened a mass virtual rally at the office of Pauline Hanson in Brisbane today, asking that more is done to protect Australia’s aviation workforce and industry. The Keep Australia Flying rally led by the Australian Services Union sought to extend JobKeeper to workers like those at Dnata and…
Variation to the Menzies Aviation (Sydney and Melbourne) Customer Service Enterprise Agreement 2018.
04 June 2020
Letter to Menzies re Variation
Singapore Airlines Bargaining Update
29 May 2020
After wasting 3 weeks on Appendix D, Singapore Management needs to get serious about negotiating a new EBA. The ASU’s bargaining representatives met with Singapore Airlines management on Thursday, 28 May 2020. Finally! Singapore Airlines has confirmed that Appendix D is off the table! Thanks to all the ASU members…