Voting in the EBA11 ballot of employees has now closed, and members across the country have thrown their overwhelming support behind their new Enterprise Agreement.
EBA11 will lock-in all your existing rights at work, without any trade-offs, continue to maximise full-time jobs as the preferred employment model at Australia Post, protects the 15% postie payment and will make it easier for part-timers to progress to full-time employment.
Members have also secured a market leading 4% annual increase to wages and allowances – the first of which will be payable next month.
It’s no wonder that members right across Australia have endorsed the Agreement so strongly, with a massive showing at the virtual ballot box:
- Australian Capital Territory 97% YES
- New South Wales 94% YES
- Northern Territory 97% YES
- Queensland 91% YES
- South Australia 94% YES
- Tasmania 53% YES
- Victoria 81% YES
- Western Australia 91% YES
NATIONAL YES VOTE: 89%
You delivered this outcome
Whilst your CWU leadership team negotiated across the bargaining table, it was CWU members’ backing of their Union’s campaign across workplaces which secured this landmark deal.
Our campaign for a new EBA at Australia Post was backed in by members who were actively seeking the best possible deal – with a mammoth effort by our AURs and ordinary members to bolster Union membership across our workplaces right as bargaining kicked-off.
To all those members who played such a significant role in securing this deal, and then encouraged your colleagues to so resoundingly support it with their votes – you achieved this deal. You secured it – and your efforts are to be celebrated!
Australia Post will now prepare to lodge EBA11 with the Fair Work Commission and we will prepare to take steps to seek coverage of the Agreement.
We’re excited to take all necessary steps over the next three years to hold Australia Post to its commitments and extract the maximum benefit out of the Agreement to improve the working lives of our members.
Keep our Union strong.
Outcomes like this only remain achievable if we keep employer groups on their toes by keeping our Union strong.
It’s important that we keep that pressure on over the next three years as we inch up to the next round of bargaining. If you work with a colleague who is not yet a member of the CWU, ask them to join today.
$500 gift card major prize draw winners
Over 400 new members joined the CWU during our recruitment campaign – ensuring we were stronger when we got to the bargaining table.
Every member who joined as part of that promotion, and ever member who invited a new member to join, went into the running to win a $500 gift card. With a number of gift cards up for grabs across our regions, we’re excited to today announce those winners:
New Members
Jacqueline Bath, Sunnybank Hills Post Office, QLD
Andrea Pool, Casuarina Post Office, NT
Michelle Kuru, Kemps Creek Parcel Facility, NSW
Cheryl Russell, Welshpool Delivery, WA
Eric Tasker, Benalla Delivery, VIC
Inviters
Daryl Sleeman, Nambour Hub, QLD
Randal Lewis, Darwin Mail Centre, NT
Cameron Waterhouse, Frenchs Forest Delivery, NSW
Kwong Lee, Mandurah Delivery, WA
David Hooper, Bentleigh East Delivery, VIC
Once again, we sincerely thank all members for the significant role they played in securing this excellent outcome.
Should you require any further information, please contact Assistant Secretaries Cameron Bird, Peter Chaloner or Nick Townsend, or Branch Officials Cade Anderson, Lisa Bahls, Nick Bentley, Chris Gleeson, Phil Kessey, TK Ly, Robbie McLauchlan, Kyle Murphy, Liam Murphy, Peter O’Connell, Brett O’Neill, Peter Psomas, Giselle Saba, Kerry Turner or Dennis Williams on (02) 9893 7822 when calling from NSW or the ACT, (07) 3255 0440 from QLD or (08) 8443 7389 from SA or the NT.
Yours faithfully,
SHANE MURPHY
CENTRAL BRANCH SECRETARY
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