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Update on Qantas Telesales EOIs and 'the plan'
08 August 2014
Today your ASU representatives met with Qantas to discuss the outcome of the EOI process. We were provided with a high level overview of the EOIs. What's clear is only a small number of people have nominated to transfer to Hobart, which falls well below the 80 staff Qantas had…
Qantas to remain majority Australian owned
16 July 2014
We have some welcome news. Late last night the Abbott Government backed down from their push to open up foreign ownership of Qantas by repealing the Qantas Sale Act. There was no support in the Senate for amendments that could have seen thousands of jobs offshored. This is your win.…
Some progress at Qantas but plenty of work to do
04 July 2014
ASU representatives including your ASU Delegates from Brisbane, Melbourne and Hobart met with Qantas management in Sydney on 1 July to receive an update on the call centre consolidation. Qantas gave the union an update on the EOI process and other staff related matters. This update included: Advise on how…
ASU delegates and officials met Qantas Telephone Sales Management again in Melbourne on 17th June 2014 to follow up on our discussions since the announcement of the closure of the Melbourne and Brisbane Centres on 28th May 2014. We discussed a range of issues including: Relocation assistance packages – Hobart,…
Qantas Telephone Sales EOIs date extended
06 June 2014
Qantas has now decided to extend the time frame for all EOIs that are being sent out today in telephone sales to 1st August 2014. Earlier in the week the company had proposed that there would be 2 cut off dates for the EOIs – 4th July 2014 and 1st…
We are people not just numbers Qantas
03 June 2014
Since the announcement of the closure of the Melbourne and Brisbane Telephone Sales Centres on 28th May your ASU representatives have been trying to persuade Qantas management that staff need longer than 4 weeks to consider their options after the centres close. Qantas stuck firm on their time frame of…
Today we have prepared a video to update Qantas Group members on the latest information about what has occurred across the Qantas Group since Alan Joyce's announcement on 27th February 2014 about the loss of 5000 jobs. You can watch the update here. In two weeks Federal Parliament will vote…
ASU Qantas Telephone Sales delegates held a marathon meeting with Qantas management in Melbourne on 29th May 2014 to discuss the decision to close the Melbourne and Brisbane Telephone Sales Centres and "consolidate" in Hobart. Your delegates were determined to leave no stone unturned in our discussions with Qantas as…
In a completely unbelievable move Qantas management have today announced to staff that they plan to close 2 of their 3 Australian based Qantas Telephone Sales centres in Brisbane and Melbourne in 6 – 9 months' time, shedding approximately 540 jobs while they will maintain 6 offshore Qantas / Jetstar…
ASU delegates and officials again met with Qantas domestic airports' management to get both an update on the restructuring plans for service and sales desk and baggage services but also to hear what decisions had been made about the management restructure. On the plans for service and sales desk and…
ASU update - Qantas Telephone Sales Review
28 March 2014
On Thursday 27th March ASU officials and Delegates from each of the Telephone Sales centres met with Qantas Management to receive an update on the current review of the Australian and New Zealand telephone sales centres. Overall there was not a lot of new information available on the review but…
Workers ask pollies to stand by Qantas
26 March 2014
Converging on Canberra from all parts of the country, Qantas workers and union officials last week lobbied pollies at Parliament House on behalf of everyone working at the Flying Kangaroo. The ASU's delegation was joined by the ACTU, NUW, TWU, AMWU and AWU. Our courageous members shone as they told…
The Australian Services Union will lobby Federal Parliament today, meeting with politicians and warning of the damage changes to the Qantas Sale Act will have on Qantas workers and their communities. The Union will be accompanied by Qantas workers and ASU delegates. ASU Assistant National Secretary Linda White said that…
The facts don’t matter at QantasLink
11 March 2014
QantasLink employees under the Sunstate, Eastern Group 1 and Eastern Group 2 Agreements will be offered the opportunity to Express an Interest (EOI) for voluntary redundancy. But ...and here's where that facts don't matter... employees who were told last week that they were in scope for receiving EOI's are not…