TRANSGRID AGREEMENT: TIME TO VOTE YES
At a member meeting on 21 January, USU members voted to endorse the most recent offer relating to your Enterprise Agreement. As at today, we can advise that TransGrid management have been advised of this outcome. We can advise that the other unions have notified...
Teachers Health Agreement: Vote NO DEAL
An important message to all Teachers Health members. Voting for your new Enterprise Agreement opens today and closes at 11:59pm tonight. What's the deal? Despite 4 months of negotiations, management have stubbornly stalled on a 1-year 2.5% pay increase and are betting...
Careers at Council
There are over 50,000 people employed in local government across NSW. Employees with diverse career backgrounds work in over 300 different job roles in metropolitan, regional and rural areas to improve the services, wellbeing and economies of our local communities....
Adequate Resourcing and Reasonable Work Expectations: Are you aware of your current rights and your employer’s obligations?
Following the recent round of USU Branch meetings across Northern NSW the Manager North Stephen Hughes was made aware of what appears to be an increasing trend of delegates reporting under resourcing and increasing workloads as a result. In a discussion with the Metro...
NSW IRC Newcastle Council Update: USU lodge matters before NSW IRC on yet another Salary System slow down
The USU was pleased with the initial hearing on these matters, held Friday 3rd December. It was broadly recommended by the Commission that the parties of the dispute – the Unions and Council, need to have further discussions. Observations of the USU were made that...
USU @ Newcastle “Cooked Up” Wages – Council bosses set to lower the pay of the lowest-paid
Why is Newcastle Council using a substandard Award to slash the pay of some of the lowest and precarious workers at the City of Newcastle? We do not know why! But we lodged matters in the NSW IRC to end this scandalous practice. Council recently “in-sourced” a...
USU/ASU secures better roster certainty
Members have been raising significant concerns over the lack of rostering over the Christmas period. Following recent conversations with Qantas, the company is provided better certainty around the upcoming rosters. Advance notice of Christmas rosters - Christmas...
Where you can find the USU truck this week!
Our truck hit the road to spread the word about our Council Services by Council Workers campaign and the Candidates at the upcoming local council elections who have signed the pledge to protect local services, jobs, and economies.
Burwood Council proposal on Christmas Concessional Days
Your Union officials have a short time ago received a formal proposal from Council leadership in relation to resolving the ongoing Christmas Concession Days provision dispute. The Union asks all members to attend a Zoom meeting on the 30 of November to provide input...
