BARGAINING UPDATE: 08 October 2015 Last night your bargaining team and ESTA had fruitful discussions before the Commission regarding your enterprise agreement. Progress has been made on a number of outstanding issues including TIL and service delivery improvement assessments. The unions are hopeful of reaching in-principle agreement with ESTA soon. The unions have agreed to …
The Unions are disappointed by ESTA’s conduct over the past few weeks. It is obvious that they place a higher priority on their public image than improving your working conditions. With regards to ESTA’s threatening correspondence regarding the protected industrial action (PIA) the Unions would like to reiterate all conduct to date has been lawful …
CWU SIGNAL No. 673– 29 September 2015 A MALCOLM TURNBuLL HANGOVER Overwhelmingly Australians celebrated the political demise of Tony Abbott. We celebrated. But now we have woken up to a Malcolm Turnbull hangover. In his first speech, Turnbull said he would lead a “thoroughly Liberal government” committed to his core values of “freedom, the individual …
Members would be aware that Telstra has notified that the “YES” vote gained a majority in their EA ballot. The numbers appear to be 28299 “eligible” to vote, 20265 voted, 12053 “YES” leaving approx. 8212 “NO”. This result includes the contentious issue of a number of employees on expired AWAs/ITEAs who were offered a vote. …
ESTA MEMBERS’ SURVEY The unions have temporarily suspended negotiations at the Fair Work Commission until we receive member feedback on a few important issues. These are Time in Lieu; Assessments and Start dates for ATL’s. Please take a few moments to complete the survey as we see this as an expedient way of receiving specific …
Telstra has made claims in a letter posted on the internal Yammer ‘social media’ site that are once again misleading staff who are voting on the EA. Telstra claims that statements in the CWU bulletin implying that you can be reassigned to an unsuitable job against your will and you can be denied a redundancy …
Following the successful ballot, members are advised that ALL the industrial actions listed below are to commence from: 18:00 Thursday 17 September 2015 The actions notified to ESTA are: Use of a generic log on for CAD & Telephony Systems – if generic log on not available, staff to make use of alternative log on …
A significant proportion of the Telstra employees who are being given a vote on your Telstra EA may never be in a position where the EA applies to them. The Victorian T&S branch has been considering the ‘scope’ question for a number of weeks; under the Act, the scope of the EA defines those eligible …
Read moreTelstra EA. Who is Voting and Who Is Deciding On Your Behalf?
You will, within the next few days, be asked by Telstra to vote on their proposed Enterprise Agreement. Telstra is required by law to put their agreement out for a vote of all ‘affected’ employees, before it replaces the current EA – ‘affected’ employees means well over half of those voting are in fact not …
PROTECTED INDUSTRIAL ACTION – VOTE YES REMEMBER BALLOT CLOSES: WED 9TH SEP at 10am Do not be misled or feel threatened by management about taking lawful protected industrial action. This is your legal right under the Fair Work Act. Management have stated that “ Employees taking industrial action are not paid” This only occurs if …