Telecommunications

The CWU has made significant progress in advocating to secure and enhance your terms and conditions of employment during the negotiations for the NBN Enterprise Agreement 2025–2028. We have reached an in-principle agreement on the following offer to be presented: 1. Wage Increases: 2. Enhanced Terms and Conditions: 3. Additional Commitments Secured by the CWU: Next Steps Based on feedback

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Your Union met with NBN yesterday for the first bargaining session of 2025, for a new NBN Enterprise Agreement (EBA). As anticipated late last year, the Union was eager to receive NBN’s pay proposal before moving forward with discussions. Yesterday, NBN presented its wage offer for the new agreement as follows: NBN justified its offer by referencing the current economic

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The consultation process for updating the Field Services Core Job Descriptions is progressing with increased momentum. Telstra’s information-gathering survey, which was sent out approximately two weeks ago, has received around 300 responses The data will continue to be refined and analysed and be used to verify the accuracy of the job descriptions within Field Services. Additionally, a Union survey will

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We are writing to update you on recent developments regarding the CFW Core Jobs Review, particularly in light of the recent Union victory in the Melbourne Magistrates Court concerning a classification dispute. As previously reported, the Union recently succeeded in a case against Telstra in the Melbourne Magistrates Court, where the Court found that Telstra had misclassified a member who was

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Bargaining for a new NBN Enterprise Agreement continued Thursday, 7th November. During the negotiations, the CWU presented the following claims: Additionally, the Union and bargaining representatives are still awaiting NBN’s formal response to the claims raised at the bargaining meeting held on 31st October. A reply is expected at the next bargaining session. Negotiations are ongoing, and the Union will

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Late last week, the Melbourne Magistrates Court delivered a judgment in a case initiated by your Union against Telstra regarding the misclassification of an employee. The court determined that the employee had been incorrectly classified at the CFW 4 level while performing duties more accurately aligned with CFW 5 responsibilities. The employee’s work included: The court concluded that these duties

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The Union representing NBN workers, the Communication Workers Union (CWU), is welcoming Labor’s announcement that the Federal Government will introduce legislation that will keep NBN Co in public hands. “This is a welcomed announcement, and the right thing to ensure our national broadband infrastructure remains universally accessible and affordable, for all Australians,” says Shane Murphy, CWU National President. “More than

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Negotiations for a new EBA for workers employed by NBN Co will commence shortly. NOTICE OF EMPLOYEE REPRESENTATIONAL RIGHTS (NERR) NBN Co is obliged by the Fair Work Act to issue all employees who are intended to be covered by the proposed Agreement with a Notice of Employee Representational Rights. You are not required to appoint a bargaining representative – as a

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As members may already be aware, ballots of employees held to determine support for Telstra’s EBA2024 offer have been resolved with the majority of participating employees voting yes to support the Agreements. In summary: As a reminder, the following key outcomes were secured by your CWU negotiating team as part of the bargaining process: Although Telstra workers felt that the

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As members are aware, this round of bargaining with Telstra commenced earlier this year and has recently come to a halt, with Telstra signalling its intention to ask employees to vote on their current offer. Last week, we commenced a consultation process with members, consisting of an online poll and a number of online and in-person meetings with members across

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