Postal

Following state level discussions and subsequent meetings involving your local CEPU representatives, the 2011 Christmas Arrangements have now been completed. This bulletin is produced for the information of all CEPU delivery members. Christmas Public Holidays Members who perform duty on any of the following days are to be paid public holiday rates of pay (2.5 times in total). Monday 26

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Following state level discussions and subsequent meetings involving your local CEPU representatives, the 2011 Christmas Arrangements have now been completed. This bulletin is produced for the information of all CEPU mail and parcel operations members. Christmas Public Holidays Members who perform duty on any of the following days are to be paid public holiday rates of pay (2.5 times in

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Please be aware of the following Christmas arrangements which apply to Retail and Business Centre workplaces from 1 December 2011. Christmas Public Holidays Members who perform duty on any of the following days are to be paid public holiday rates of pay (2.5 times in total). Monday 26 December 2011   Tuesday 27 December 2011 Christmas Day Substitute Holiday  

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The Union is pleased to report to all Delivery members that agreement has been reached with Australia Post for SBD across the nation to be immediately suspended indefinitely.  Further SBD talks were held with senior Australia Post officials last Wednesday 30 November 2011, involving the National Delivery Committee representatives and all State Secretaries. As a result of these talks, Australia

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After long and protracted discussions, both the CEPU and the TWU have settled the demarcation dispute between both organisations resulting in Unions NSW issuing the attached statement for publication. The CEPU welcomes this sensible agreement reached with the TWU that has provided for this Australia Post Union coverage determination to be made by Unions NSW. The CEPU and its strong

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Following further discussions with Australia Post it has been agreed for ‘individual’ SBD rounds to be jointly assessed at the local level for conversion back to single bundle delivery where SBD is not the most effective methodology. In the most recent SBD Dispute Update on 11 November 2011, members were informed of the following agreed criterion for initial SBD rollback:

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The following represents the present position on the SBD Dispute given the further talks between your CEPU representatives and Australia Post senior management on Friday, 4 November 2011. These talks focused on the information gathered from the three Working Groups covering: 1. Front Letter Carrier (FLC) 2. Safety 3. SBD/Single Bundle Delivery comparison time trials/audits. Present Criterion at this stage

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The SBD review process and audit examination continues under work groups established with the involvement of representatives of your union at the national, state and local level. These work groups are covering SBD matters associated with; A comparison study of SBD and single bundle delivery to determine whether the reported 30 min per day cost savings to the organisation are

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CEPU national office representatives along with senior Australia Post management including the Managing Director met with 21 Postal Delivery Officers from all states in the last week of September on the controversial Separate Bundle Delivery (SBD) system of work. Health and Safety concerns along with SBD being a costly inefficient work practice featured during these talks. The 21 posties who

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Australia Post’s claim that they have successfully rolled out SBD to over 700 rounds across the country is not true.  Information reported by members around the country have not even half that number of rounds converted to SBD.  Similarly, Post are claiming Posties are having positive experiences using SBD – well we keep searching and haven’t been able to find

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