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Qantas announces bonus payment - what does it mean?
07 July 2015
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…
Unions’ correspondence about Qantas international company
25 November 2014
Ever since Qantas announced the creation of a new Qantas international entity when they announced the company results, Qantas unions have been seeking clarification about whether the new company would be an employing entity and whether it would affect the terms and conditions of existing employees' working in the Qantas…
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…
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…
Sunstate bargaining back to the table
16 October 2014
ASU officials and Delegates met with Sunstate Qantaslink and Qantas management to continue to work toward a resolution to the Sunstate agreement negotiation. The ASU Log of claims remains on the table in full. Discussions focused on issues surrounding the surety that wage rates and penalties included in the all…
Australians tell Alan Joyce & Qantas Board to keep their promise – don’t offshore more Australian jobs!
09 October 2014
In a Change.org petition released today, Australians are giving voice to their frustration with the national carrier which recently announced it was reneging on its promise made in May this year to not offshore more call centre jobs. The petition calls on Joyce and the Board to immediately reverse this…
Make your shareholding count at Qantas AGM
02 October 2014
As in previous years the ASU is sending representatives to the Qantas AGM to ask some hard questions ... We don't expect to be the only ones given the record loss Qantas has sustained. We expect many shareholders will question how CEO Alan Joyce and the Board can hold their…
Are Qantas making up the Telephone Sales strategy as they go along?
24 September 2014
ASU members would be forgiven for thinking that the telephone sales strategy is being made up as they go along. The conflicting information we have been given since the closure of the Melbourne and Brisbane centres was announced certainly supports this contention and the meeting between your ASU reps and…
The ASU has been advised this morning by Qantas that it is now their intention to put more telephone sales jobs in Auckland instead of in Hobart as was initially promised (see the attached letter). Now Qantas says that the company is "segmenting" the business so that Hobart will become…
Further update on the Qantas Telesales EOIs and assistance
16 September 2014
ASU delegates and officials met with Qantas management for another update on Friday 12 September 2014 in Melbourne. We discussed a range of issues including the update on the EOI numbers, Hobart recruitment, training, career transition support, the redeployment process, and Melbourne–Brisbane transfers. The company is putting in place a…
Enough is enough – it’s time to go Alan Joyce
28 August 2014
After months and months of seeing long serving loyal colleagues leave the Qantas Group because of the mismanagement of the CEO and the Qantas Board, today's news of a record statutory $2.8 billion loss at Qantas is still a shock. Many ASU members have expressed their dismay at what has…
It’s time for Alan Joyce and the Qantas Board to go
28 August 2014
ASU MEDIA RELEASE: The unprecedented Qantas statutory loss of $2.8 billion announced today means one thing – it is time for Qantas CEO Alan Joyce and the Qantas Board to resign or be sacked by Qantas shareholders says the Australian Services Union (ASU), the largest union in Qantas and the…
ASU delegates and officials met with Qantas airport management in Sydney on 19th August 2014 for a discussion about the Company's roster optimisation work and decisions in relation to the acceptance of the Expressions of Interest (EOIs) in redundancy from customer service staff at airports. As we know, way back…