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The Telstra AGM will take place in a little over a week and we want the Board and other shareholders to hear your concerns, loud and clear. The AGM is one of the few public opportunities where the Board and CEO MUST answer questions. We can think of a few good ones – and are sure you can too.  As shareholders, our members have

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Talks continued with the Unions’ Single Bargaining Unit (SBU) and Telstra meeting this week to continue negotiations for a new agreement. LONG SERVICE LEAVE As members would now be well-aware, Telstra’s Long Service Leave (LSL) policy which takes effect from 1 January next year allows the company to direct employees whom have accumulated more than 90 days of long service

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Management have decided to progressively roll out their new “Indoor Planner” tool across delivery facilities in the coming weeks. We see the Indoor Planner as nothing more than a return to what was a flawed system used against members in the past.  Members have long memories and would no-doubt remember the NEVER agreed to sort rates and miscellaneous times that

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The Australian union movement continues its campaign against the undemocratic, anti-worker and anti-union Ensuring Integrity bill at Senate inquiry hearings beginning tonight in Canberra. Australian unions will give evidence at hearings in Canberra, Brisbane, Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney against a bill which has no equivalent in the western world and represents an unprecedented attack on the democratic freedoms of working

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Talks continued with the Unions’ Single Bargaining Unit (SBU) and Telstra meeting this week to continue negotiations for a new agreement. Clause 45 Interplay between moving to a Subsidiary and being redeployed under Clause 49 Currently the Telstra EA provides that if your position is made redundant, you enter the ‘placement period’ and it is during this time that redeployment

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Talks continued with the Unions’ Single Bargaining Unit (SBU) and Telstra meeting this week to continue negotiations. Clause 45   The discussion around the Clause 45 transfer of business provisions today focussed primarily around drafting. The SBU’s focus was to ensure that the intention is clearly demonstrated by the words of the clause, eliminating the possibility for misinterpretation or error.  

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This year’s payment of the One Team Bonus will be paid on 4 September. During bargaining for EBA9 we successfully secured the commitment to pay this additional 1% bonus payment, over and above the EBA pay rise – provided Post met key performance indicators relating to service targets and profit during the preceding financial year. Members should start to receive

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Talks with Visionstream continued last week – with management having very little to say. The company’s position on the current pay offer remains – that is: 1.5% to former Silcar employees and 2.5% to Visionstream employees. Building Code compliance remains a continuing issue with Visionstream maintaining that this is a critical feature for the company. After some debate, it was

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Bargaining has continued this week with the Unions’ Single Bargaining Unit (SBU) and Telstra making progress towards a new agreement. Clause 45 Clause 45 remains a central focus of negotiations but in light of the progress made, it may soon take a back seat. The SBU put forward further enhancements to clause 45 to strengthen and preserve entitlements for employees

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All Australian communities, including those in regional areas, deserve access to a local, reliable post office and service and Australia Post must take steps to ensure those services remain, postal workers say. Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate said yesterday that the increase in the cost of postage stamps is one way of ensuring Post’s ability to continue providing services in

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