Virgin Redundancy & LWOP offers to be made
USU/ASU delegates and organisers held further consultation meetings with management yesterday and we can now advise that Virgin will be making binding offers to everyone who expressed interest in redundancy or leave without pay (LWOP). The expressions of interest...
Auscript – Commission pay dispute update
On 1 September 2020 the ASU and Auscript participated in a second phone Conference before Commissioner Harper-Greenwell in the pay dispute. After hearing that a meeting between the parties on 20 August did not resolve the award minimum vs EA Bronze rate issue the...
Breaking: Bain Capital confirmed as new owner of Virgin Australia
The Second Creditors Meeting was held this morning and creditors overwhelmingly voted to endorse the sale of Virgin Australia to new owner Bain Capital. This is a significant milestone for USU/ASU members at Virgin as it means the company will continue to exist and...
Joint agreed communication by Maurice Blackburn and USU/ASU on the new EA
Maurice Blackburn and the USU/ASU are pleased to announce that we have reached an in principle agreement on the terms of a new Enterprise Agreement. The USU/ASU will proceed to hold members meetings later this week and the intention is to hold a formal employee...
New Zealand DIA Enterprise Agreement Approved!
Congratulations to the New Zealand DIA negotiation team! Your hard work has paid off and now your new EA has been APPROVED by the Fair Work Commission. The EA was put to a new vote in July 2020 and was unanimously accepted. The EA provides for an equivalent of 17.5%...
2020 NSW Local Government State Award: New Clause to provide support to staff working unreasonable hours
With the introduction of the new Local Government (State) Award 2020 the following new clause has been added to provide support to staff who work unreasonable hours in completing work which takes too long because their workgroup is understaffed. Clause 9. Resourcing...
USU @ AFL: Information session
Following announcements made by Mr McLachlan on Monday 24 August regarding the future of AFL, the ASU will be hosting a second information session for USU/ASU members and non-members interested in joining. The session will commence at 6.15pm on Wednesday 26 August....
Proxies & Representation at the Upcoming 2nd Creditors Meeting
As a union member, your union along with all other members of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) made an application to the Federal Court of Australia with the support of Virgin Administrators and the Virgin management team to make sure all of our members...
Virgin Australia: Expressions of Interest open
Since Virgin publicly announced significant job losses on 5 August your USU/ASU representatives have been involved in extensive negotiations where we have tried to make the restructure process as fair and transparent as possible for Guest Services employees. We...
