Postal

There has been another light bulb over the head moment at Retail management headquarters – this time it involves visiting nursing homes and retirement villages to prey on the vulnerable elderly for sales. Some bright go-getter has decided to shortly send retail staff out in droves to community care facilities armed with Christmas catalogues, products and bags of cash along

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Earlier this year your Union wrote to Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate urging her to urgently review the default Superannuation fund arrangements for new employees who are ineligible to join the APSS fund and had not nominated another fund. A copy of that letter can be downloaded by clicking here. Your Union took this action following deeply disturbing hearings at

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Your Union has today welcomed Westpac and NAB’s decision to invest in local communities through vital banking services to be offered across Australia Post outlets. This follows the Commonwealth Bank’s announcement last week to commit to Australia Post’s Bank@Post service. We’re now calling on ANZ to follow suit in committing to this important service for their customers across the country. The Australia

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Your Union is calling on the other big three banks to follow the lead of the Commonwealth Bank and commit to investing in providing local communities with vital banking services via Australia Post outlets. The CBA and Australia Post have today announced a deal that will see the bank provide critical investment in Australia Post’s Bank@Post service. The agreement will

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The CEPU has become concerned that some members within Australia Post Retail may have been short changed on allowances. Members who were required to step up and undertake various manager’s duties while a recent two day-long PMs conference was underway have complained of not being paid the higher duties allowance they are entitled to. Under your EBA, higher duties allowance

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Negotiations for your new EBA have now concluded and we are urging members to vote yes to secure their conditions. Throughout negotiations, we were guided by the issues you said were most important to you and your family. We’d like to thank members for participating in workplaces meetings and surveys which allowed us to formulate a claim that truly reflected

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Following issues raised by members, your Union has demanded for Australia Post to undertake an audit of leave payments to ensure correct loadings have been paid in accordance with EBA9. This audit has now been completed and it has been discovered that around 30 members on night shifts did not receive their 30% shift loadings while on leave. Australia Post is

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A culmination of many months of discussion and planning between your Union and Australia Post will see the introduction of a trial of the One Network Structure across segments of the delivery network shortly. For far too long, posties at many workplaces across the country have been required to work side by side each other, performing the same duties to

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Members would be aware of Australia Post’s repeated attempts to axe your Authorised Holiday (Union Picnic Day). We saw it during EBA8 talks, EBA9 talks and then again last year in the lead up to the consultation process for the day’s nomination. Thankfully, on all these occasions, management came to their senses — allowing a sensible compromise to manage the

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Members have expressed concern relating to information recently shared by Australia Post in relation to the direction the company is taking in terms of modes of delivery. Firstly, it is important to understand that the consultative process around alternate modes of delivery is in its infancy at the Last Mile Consultative Forum —a forum consisting not only of management representatives,

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