It’s time for ASU members at SQ to make a decision about the future of their EBA. Join the ASU Meeting at 5.00PM Eastern Time, on Monday, 13 July 2020 to have your say on management’s proposal to pause bargaining for 6 months. Click here to register. Your bargaining team…

Unions and employers representing tens of thousands of aviation workers have sent a joint appeal to the Prime Minister to implement Aviation Keeper, an extension to Jobkeeper. The letter coincides with an advertising campaign to highlight the need for AviationKeeper so that workers have access to JobKeeper beyond September. The…

ASU Qantas airport delegates and officials had our first meeting with Qantas airport senior management on Monday 6th July via videoconference to discuss how the announcement by Alan Joyce on 25th June 2020 will affect ASU members in customer service roles at airports. On 26th June 2020 your ASU wrote…

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…

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…

Consistent with the 6 April Order of FWC Commissioner Yilmaz, a fourth Joint Consultative Committee meeting between ASU reps and Auscript management was held on 23 June 2020. Further JCC meetings are scheduled for 16 September and 16 December 2020. The following issues were discussed along with an update on…

As published in the Daily Telegraph and the Courier Mail, 1 July 2020 Where the bloody hell are the planes, ScoMo LINDA WHITE As AUSTRALIANS slowly emerge from their COVID-19 cocoons, many are looking upwards, searching the sky for planes which used to be such a familiar sight. Most of…

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…

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…