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Australia Post can adapt with sensible reform
Australia Post has announced a full year loss of $222 million for the 2014/15 Financial Year – the first such loss in thirty years. CWU National Secretary, Greg Rayner said the announcement highlights the need for reform but that reform can be done sensibly and without forced job losses. “It is abundantly clear that the letter side of the business
“Top line” issues in Decipha enterprise bargaining
The CWU was due to meet with Decipha on Thursday, 24 September for enterprise bargaining negotiations. But Decipha negotiators cancelled the meeting. The most recent enterprise bargaining meeting with Decipha was held on Wednesday, 16 September. In that meeting Decipha negotiators said that they wanted a roll over agreement. And they wanted the union to drop off on its claims.
Post told to set up working group of industry stakeholders
Australia Post has been told by the federal government to set up a new industry-working group to consider issues facing the postal sector. The group will include representatives from the printing industry, mail-houses, LPOs and the CWU. Changes the group will discuss include the proposed bulk mail price hikes, raising the cost of a stamp to $1, and the two-speed
Post call centre dispute
Recently, Post call centre senior managers directed workers to sign off all customer communications with their surname. This was done WITHOUT any consultation with the CWU. We received numerous calls and emails from our concerned members around this directive with genuine concerns for their privacy and personal safety with customers having the ability to search staff members via social media sites. Post
CWU asks Decipha to pay women more in superannuation
The CWU has asked Decipha to pay its female employees 2% more in superannuation under a new enterprise agreement. The union has also asked Decipha to continue to pay employer superannuation contributions while an employee (male or female) is on parental leave for up to 12 months. While most employees receive the superannuation guarantee of 9.5%, women typically retire with significantly
Supervisor overreacted but worker gets formal counselling
The CWU has heard from a worker who was unfairly issued a formal counselling by Post for not following a direction from his manager. In brief, the worker’s supervisor told him to stop sorting splits and to commence the primary sort. The worker said, “I will just finish this spilt.” “It will only take a couple of minutes.” “Then I
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