Last night at the union movement's annual ACTU Awards, ASU delegate from our Queensland (Services & Northern Administrative) Branch, Penny Carr, won the ACTU Delegate of the Year Award. The ASU congratulates Penny for her award that recognises her sterling contribution to workers' advancement. We also extend congratulations to all…

Laws to remove consumer protections in financial services being introduced to parliament by the Federal Government today would see working people get ripped off by big banks, unions said today. >> Sign the petition to Tony Abbott ACTU President Ged Kearney said the Abbott Government's move to water down the…

Industry Super Australia today launched Funding Australia: Superannuation and the Financial System, a groundbreaking study that charts the course of super’s rise and rise over the last twenty years. Click here to read this on the Industry Super Australia website Underpinned by new and innovative analysis, the paper comprehensively illustrates…

MAXNetWork staff from all divisions would be aware that the MAXNetWork Collective Agreement 2009 expires in July 2014 and management have commenced staff consultation about bargaining. Negotiations are scheduled to commence on 2nd & 3rd April 2014 in Brisbane. An enterprise agreement is a legally enforceable document which provides you…

After a battle with leukaemia, ASU leader Kath Nelson passed away last Friday. Kath was both the ASU National Vice President as well as the Secretary of our Queensland (Services and Northern Administrative) Branch (also known as The Services Union). Her innovative leadership and vibrant spirit will be sorely missed,…

A new report from the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) exposes how far Qatar will go to deny workers their rights ahead of a critical FIFA Executive Committee meeting on Thursday 20th March in Zurich. Click here to read this article on the ITUC website The Executive Committee will consider…

The Construction and Property Services Industry Skills Council (CPSISC) is seeking stakeholder feedback on the review of building surveying qualifications. If you work in this area, your feedback is valuable. As the Union for building surveyors in local government, the ASU encourages you to participate in the reveiw. The deadline…

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…

Today the ASU and your Delegates met with Qantas management regarding telephone sales. This was following a request by the company to brief the Union on their intention to look at all aspects of telephone sales. ASU Delegates from each telephone sales centre participated via phone. What Qantas said Qantas…

The ASU, Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and other Qantas unions held another crisis meeting with Qantas CEO Alan Joyce On Wednesday 5 March 2014 so that he could give us an honest answer on job and wage cuts and take up our offer of working together to ensure…