At the recent national meeting of ASU Qantas delegates it was resolved to commence our preparations for our Qantas EBA11 this year. As a result our Qantas EBA 11 ASU survey has now been released to enable staff to express a view about what we should claim in this next…

Our ASU Qantas Enterprise Bargaining Agreement 11 (EBA11) commenced with the release of our EBA survey in October 2015; see Bulletin 1: Qantas EBA11 preparations begin. A Qantas Group National Delegates meeting was held on 25-26 August 2015; see Bulletin: Qantas Group National Delegates’ Meeting makes plans. The meeting discussed…

The Australian Services Union is your union at Aerocare. Your most recent Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) has expired, so we’ll be negotiating a new EBA this year with the input of members across the company. It’s your job and your EBA, so please fill in our short CONFIDENTIAL survey to…

We finally seem to have a schedule of meetings with the company to start bargaining after the company walked out of negotiations before they began on 7th October 2015. The company appears to have also conceded it's not up to them to choose the ASU negotiating team. We provided the…

On 19 October 2015 the ASU filed a dispute in the Fair Work Commission over AaE's proposal to change your pay cycle, and its impact on employees. In particular, ASU members are concerned about the following things: The fact that the roster cycle and pay cycle will be different will…

Negotiations for a new Enterprise Agreement at Myer have been running for nearly a year. While talks about a new agreement have stalled there has been some progress on wages. Negotiations for a new Enterprise Agreement at Myer have been running for some time. While talks about a new agreement…

The ASU is recommending that you vote "NO" to the NEAMI agreement. Here are the reasons why: 1. Miniscule Wage Increases NEAMI is making only the minimum pay increases required to satisfy the Equal Remuneration Order (this means NEAMI gets increased funding, not all of which is passed on to…

Following ASU members endorsing the proposal for a new dnata Passenger Services Enterprise Agreement, we have been working with dnata to finalise the drafting of the Agreement. We can now advise you that the Agreement is about to be put out for a vote of employees. On Thursday 15 October…

Today the Senate defeated many of the unfair proposals in the Turnbull Government's Fair Work Amendment Bill, rejecting the prospect of more exploitation of the most vulnerable workers in our community. The Opposition, Greens and Cross Bench Senators successfully challenged and defeated the most unfair elements of the Bill including…

Australian Unions are meeting this week in Canberra for the 2015 ACTU Occupational Health Safety and Workers Compensation Conference to discuss how to tackle significant workplace safety issues and barriers. This comes as Safe Work Australia figures show there have been 126 workplace fatalities in Australia already this year (to…