Postal

After the green light was given to proceed with our ballot for protected industrial action, the CEPU has been in discussions with the Australian Electoral Commission.We can now advise that the ballot will officially open on Wednesday 9 September. Here are the key dates: 1 September, 5.00pm – rolls close 9 September, 5.00pm – ballot opens and papers sent out

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Late today Fair Work Australia approved the CEPU’s applications for a ballot of members to authorise the taking of protected industrial action in Australia Post and in Post Logistics. “This is a significant step forward in attempting to successfully approve within our Australia Post membership the biggest workplace ballot in the country,” said CEPU State Secretary Jim Metcher. “Tens of thousands

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Decision on our ballot put off ’till Monday. Australia Post yesterday used the equivalent of a “sick note” to deliberately sabotage a hearing into your Union’s industrial action ballot application. Under the law, Fair Work Australia (FWA) — the body that has taken over from the Australian Industrial Relations Commission — must consider ballot applications within two days of such

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The CEPU has today lodged an official application for a secret ballot of members to approve taking protected industrial action against Australia Post. This will be  the largest ballot for protected industrial action since the start of the Fair Work Act.  It will ask nearly 18,000 CEPU members at Australia Post to take a wide range of actions in an

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The CEPU has received a number of complaints from delivery members across the state following the recent implementation of the Hughes bundle straps as an alternative to using elastic bands for bundling mail for delivery. Members are advised that the straps are an alternative to using the elastic bands and they are not obligated to use them if not comfortable with

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As you know we have battled Australia Post for over a year about the threats to transport member safety presented by the move to introduce the new Mercedes Sprinter vans without side windows. We have consistently argued the vans are not fit for purpose and that the lack of side windows severely limits driver vision – and, therefore, safety. Now

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During EBA talks, the CEPU continually called on Australia Post to drop their practice of using Facility Nominated Doctors. FND’s, paid for and controlled by Australia Post management, are used to get injured workers back on the job before they are ready.  This then allows management to manipulate Lost Time Injury figures and access large executive bonuses, at the expense

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Labor National Conference delegates Jim Metcher and Susan Sheather from within the CEPU have received support from Federal Labor’s supreme governing body, the ‘National ALP Conference’, and Minister Conroy for a Federal Government Inquiry into Australia Post’s treatment of its sick and injured employees. Following negotiations between the Federal Government and the CEPU the National ALP Conference voted on a

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Following the Union’s formal decision advising that it could not recommend EBA7 to the CEPU membership in Post, the Union has been talking with members across the country – discussing the issues at stake and getting member views on the way forward. Yesterday, the Divisional Executive of the CEPU Communications Division considered reports back from its branches and members and

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The CEPU (Communications Division) Divisional Executive unanimously decided today that the revised EBA7 offer cannot be recommended to members as it undermines members’ job security, health and safety and take home pay.  The official resolution of the Divisional Executive is reproduced below: “The Divisional Executive has noted the report of the Divisional Secretary on the status of negotiations with Australia

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