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ASU Jetstar delegates were out in force at the recent ASU Qantas Group National Delegates' meeting in Melbourne on 25 and 26 August 2015 with delegates from all ports in attendance. They joined 50 other delegates' from Qantas and other subsidiaries. There was a packed program of speakers and plenty…

The ASU has been advised that all Malaysian Airline System Berhad employees will be transferred to the new company Malaysia Airlines Berhad on 1 September 2015. The company says that everyone's terms and conditions of employment will stay the same, however it is very important that you do not sign…

ASU bargaining representatives have reached agreement with Rex Airlines management for an EBA to replace the 2013 Agreement. At the initial EBA meetings the ASU put forward the log of claims drafted from ASU members' feedback and endorsed by ASU members nationwide. After the many meetings with Rex Management the…

Malaysia Airlines Systems (MAS) still cannot answer how MAS will operate in Australian when it mutates into Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) in just over two weeks' time. The ASU continues to pursue Malaysia Airlines for answers on its structure post 1 September 2015 and so the ASU has re-activated our…

The ASU AaE EBA was approved by the Fair Work Commission on 29 July 2015 and so comes into operation on 5 August 2015. Under the agreement a pay rise was due the first pay period on or after 1 July 2015. As yet we have not been able to…

After over a year of negotiations with dnata (and before that Toll dnata), your ASU National Negotiating Team now believe we have an offer from the company we can recommend to members for new Passenger Services Agreements in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. The ASU sought assistance of the Fair…

AaE staff have voted overwhelmingly to endorse the ASU EBA deal negotiated and recommended by the ASU's AaE National Negotiating Team. In a significant turnout of eligible staff (75% of voters) 98% of these staff voted in favour of the Agreement. A big thank you must go to our hard…

Last Friday 2 July 2015 Qantas group CEO Alan Joyce announced that "In recognition, management has decided to offer a one-off 5 per cent bonus payment for all Qantas, Jetstar and other Group employees covered by finalised enterprise/collective agreements (EBAs) that include the 18 month wage freeze." This bonus is…

On 2 July 2015 the ASU represented members in a dispute against Jetstar before Vice President Watson at the Fair Work Commission. Recently there has been plenty of confusion and inconsistency in the way Jetstar has applied Nil48 - Jetstar has tried to underpay staff by making a range of…

Last week ASU delegates at our regular quarterly meeting put an ultimatum to Jetstar management to fix the way in which the company pays nil 48s at airports. Jetstar has responded to the ASU request to clarify how nil 48s operate under EBA 5 by asserting that it does not…