The Australia Post EBA8 survey is now closed and following record returns by members .
Your union would like to thank all members who took time out to participate in this important EBA8 survey which will assist in advancing important issues members feel strongly about during the present EBA8 talks
Below are the results of your EBA8 survey for the information of members.
Where you work
Delivery 51%
Mail & Parcel Processing 20%
Transport 12%
Retail 12%
Admin & others 5%
How many hours you work
Full time 82%,
Part time 18%
How you rated the importance of key 10 key EBA issues (1 being most important)
1. Job Security
2. Annual pay increase
3. Safeguarding conditions / entitlements
4. Safeguarding superannuation benefits
5. Maximising full time jobs
6. Access to additional earnings (overtime etc)
7. Workplace health & safety
8. Pay increases with one-off cash bonus payments
9. Retraining, Redeployment, Redundancy (RRR) Benefits
10. Training and career development
Do you care if your job is abolished due to mail volume decline and/or a post office closure?
85% said yes
12% said somewhat
3% said not at all
Do you care if your workmates’ jobs are abolished due to mail volume decline and/or a post office closure?
84% said yes
13% said somewhat
3% said not at all
If your job was identified as surplus tomorrow, which would you prefer?
71 % said they would like to be retrained and/or redeployed to another job, even in a different workstream
29% said they would like to be retrenched
On Pay – If you had to make a choice, which scenario would you choose?
89% said they wanted to advance a fair pay claim with minimal job losses
11% said they wanted to advance job losses in return for a higher pay claim
To help advance claims and secure a fair EBA, are you willing to……
We will not be publishing the breakdown of the results of this particular survey feedback section for the obvious reasons, given management would be very interested indeed to what members are prepared to do or not do within options for campaign initiatives and therefore provide management with a plan for their defensive strategy if at anytime is needed.
But in saying this, it was fairly clear and direct that the overwhelming majority of members have indicated support for any considerations adopted by their union along with the preparedness to participate in a range of campaign activities approved by the union if necessary and for the purpose of advancing claims to reach a new fair and reasonable EBA8.
Reproduced below are some of the EBA8 survey ‘personal responses’ that were in common in nature from members
Job Security – “We keep seeing mail volume in decline. Our mail trucks are getting lighter. But we keep seeing contractors doing our work. Before Post thinks about job cuts and closing post offices, how about killing off the contractors and the LPOs first? We keep hearing about the competition, but Post continues to create its own competition when it comes to contractors and LPOs. Let’s look after our own backyard first.”
Protecting Award Entitlements and Redundancy Benefits – “I think we need to protect all our Award entitlements and especially our redundancy benefits. Unions have fought for these things over the last 100 years and if we lose them now we’ll never get them back – especially if we get another anti-worker government.”
Fair Pay Rise – “We need decent pay rises to meet our cost of living pressures. Our electricity is going up, our water is going up and the cost of treating my kids to an ice cream every once and a while is getting further from reach.”
No Pay Rise Delay This Time – Back to Back EBA a Must- “I hope we are able to get a back to back EBA this time without waiting and Post keeping our pay rise as their savings. We need a pay rise without delay and the longer we wait for a new EBA the longer we go without a pay rise.”
Safeguard Superannuation Benefit – “My Superannuation is important. Employers only have to pay us 9% by law. The benefits we get at Post are half of what makes the job worth it in the end. Don’t let Post near our super!”
Understaffed and taken for Granted – “I am sick of coming in to work early and leaving late without pay and getting no thanks in return. If we didn’t put in the extra time, we would not get the day’s work done. It used to be give and take, now it’s just take, take, take. Every time we have a review it always says we are overstaffed.”
The survey is closed, but we still want to hear from you
We’d like to hear your thoughts on these topics and encourage members to send us their comments by clicking here.
Negotiations continue this week
EBA8 negotiations will continue this week in Melbourne. We will keep members up to date on the progress of talks shortly.
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