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SIGNAL No. 668– 15 June 2015 FOR THE UNION’S SAKE PLEASE VOTE! The union’s four yearly elections are on. Voting is taking place throughout June. Your opportunity to vote ends on 30th June 2015. It is a fact that only a minority of union members vote in union elections. Let’s change that in these elections. …
ESTA today tabled an insulting wage offer of 2.5% per year over 4 years. This offer is below market rates of pay. The average public sector enterprise bargaining wage increase is 3.5% per year. It is disappointing that ESTA feels that their wage offer is appropriate remuneration for all the hard work you all do. …
Your bargaining team are frustrated to report that ESTA has cancelled this week’s bargaining meeting. The Agreement expires in less than 4 weeks and ESTA is still not in a position to bargain. ESTA claim to need 2 weeks to discuss the union’s claim of minimum staffing. This is not good enough, given the Unions …
OFF SHORING A MUCH VEXED QUESTION The issue of offshoring of Telstra jobs has long been a vexed question for our members. Obviously without political/public intervention the Telstra Management for example, will continue to sell out Australian jobs in the interests of the company’s bottom line. To achieve our goals on this issue will take …
REST BREAKS: TELSTRA DIGS IN Telstra is continuing to maintain its current position on rest breaks for employees working in Directory Assistance centres despite the CWU having notified the Fair Work Commission of a dispute in this area. On Friday 15 May, the CWU and Telstra attended a conference called by Fair Work Commission to …
Five months into barganing and following clear feedback from your barganing team, ESTA has finally listened and tabled a new log which significantly reduces the attacks on your hard fought for working conditions. While this management log is still not formally endorsed by Government, ESTA has officially advised that they will not be pursuing the …
NO CHANGE TO REDUNDANCY PAYOUTS Telstra has formally confirmed that it will not be seeking any changes to employees’ redundancy payout entitlements in the current round of enterprise bargaining. The 80+ (maximum) redundancy payout will remain in the new Enterprise Agreement. Telstra’s letter confirming this commitment can be found at the union website at www.cwu.org.au. …
MEMBERSHIP PLEBISCITE ADVICE CWU members should by now have received a ballot paper for an internal union membership vote (plebiscite).The issue you are being asked to vote on concerns the rules of your union, the CWU, which is the Communications Division of the larger CEPU.The other two divisions of our larger union are the Electrical …
TELSTRA EA 2015 The CWU and other Telstra unions (the CPSU and Professionals Australia) met with Telstra on the 12 May, for the opening of enterprise bargaining negotiations. This was really a preliminary meeting concerned largely with technical matters such as the scheduling of meetings over the bargaining period and the general conduct of discussions. …