Postal

Since Australia Post closed the APSS to new employees in 2013, new starters who do not nominate a Superannuation fund choice are automatically enrolled in a default fund managed by AMP. A deeply disturbing two days at the Banking Royal Commission has revealed AMP had misled the Australian Securities and Investment Commission on 20 occasions, interfered in the drafting of

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Random workplace drug and alcohol testing was introduced across Australia Post’s heavy vehicle workforce in 2015 to comply with new national road safety legislative and regulatory requirements. However, as part of a corporate safety review, Post have flagged their desire to review and expand the policy across the rest of the workforce. Consideration is in its very early days and the consultation

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In some good news for the Australian public, and our Retail members, Australia Post has confirmed it will continue to be the provider of passport services on behalf of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) for at least the next three years. The new agreement, which commences on 1 July 2018, will see Australia Post continue to provide

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Your Union welcomed today’s Australia Post profit announcement. CEPU Communications Division National Secretary Greg Rayner said the almost tripling of the national postal carrier’s profit demonstrated successful transformation to profitability can occur without massive job cuts. “The Accord signed between the Union and Australia Post allowed the company to embark on a journey of significant transformation, while ensuring the job

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Your Union has called on Australia Post to clarify postal members’ rights and responsibilities during the upcoming same sex marriage postal survey. CEPU Communications Division National Secretary Greg Rayner has written to Australia Post seeking discussions around concerns associated with the delivery of ‘unaddressed mail’ as part of the process. As the Union representing postal workers, the CEPU will not

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Late yesterday afternoon the Fair Work Commission advised your Union that EBA9 has been approved and will officially come into effect on 9 August. Once again, thank you to all local AURs and members in workplaces across NSW and the ACT who were vocal in their demands for nothing less than a new EBA9 that protects our existing hard-won conditions,

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The Union representing posties across the country is urging residents to do more to protect both their dogs and their local Australia Post worker, with almost 1 dog attack a day on posties across the nation. National Secretary of the CEPU Communications Union, Greg Rayner, urges: “With 241 dog attacks on Australia Post workers in 2016, the threat to local

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CEPU member action required – read below CEPU members working at Glebe PO Box facility have just been removed from their workplace and relocated for a second time in just over a week due to intervention from your Union following the discovery of Asbestos contamination. Without notice to Australia Post, the private owners of the facility which is attached to

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Members vote to lock in certainty and security Despite the Abbott/Turnbull Government’s unfair Workplace Bargaining Policy, a strong and coordinated CEPU campaign delivered an EBA9 that locks in all existing hard-fought conditions, continues to maximise meaningful, full-time jobs, prevents members impacted by reform from being involuntarily retrenched and equips members for the jobs of the future. And the strong endorsement

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After months of bargaining and intense discussions over the past few weeks finalising the finer details, Australia Post’s formal EBA9 offer has been announced and an employee vote will take place shortly. Your Union supports the offer. Since bargaining commenced in November last year we have been consulting with and listening to members across the county. Thousands of members have

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