SAVE DEVONSHIRE STREET EARLY EDUCATION CENTRE WILLOUGHBY’S ONLY COUNCIL-RUN CHILDCARE
The Willoughby community and the USU say don’t sell off Devonshire Street Children’s Centre! The Devonshire Street Childcare Centre in Chatswood has been owned and operated by Willoughby City Council for over 35 years. Members and community share concerns at public...
Save our early education centres @ Sutherland Council
Early Education Centres are important services for Shire residents and families.Sutherland Shire Council has a long history of contracting out the work of council workers to private enterprise. The poor outcome of this contracting out strategy adopted by this council...
AWARD 2023 UPDATE: ADVERSE ALLOWANCES ATTACK MEANS PAY CUTS
This is the eighth-member update in our series on the negotiations for the Local Government (State) Award 2023. Local Government NSW, on behalf of your Council, wants to ATTACK and seek CUTS to your current adverse working conditions allowances. This also would result...
SAVE OUR CHILDCARE: DEVONSHIRE STREET IS THE ONLY COUNCIL-RUN CHILDCARE IN WILLOUGHBY COUNCIL
The Devonshire Street Childcare Centre in Chatswood has been owned and operated by Willoughby City Council for over 35 years, but now Council is set to privatise the centre! Sign our petition. Council-run Early Childcare Centres mean: Centres are not-for-profit and...
Buyer beware! VA’s ‘final offer’ contains too much uncertainty
Virgin Australia has put out a ‘final offer’ to employees and several items that are not agreed upon by the USU/ASU. As VA claims this is it’s “final offer”, we have met with members to discuss the proposal and our next steps. There are a number of improvements in...
AWARD 2023 UPDATE: BOSSES’ SHAME ON AWARD PAY
This is the seventh member update in our series on the negotiations for the Local Government (State) Award 2023. LGNSW, on behalf of your council, wants you to accept an average wage increase of less than 3% a year over three years. This is out of step with the...
Virgin Australia members: Important USU/ASU Enterprise Bargaining meeting this week
USU members are invited to a members' meeting on Tuesday, 28 March or Wednesday, 29 March to discuss Virgin Australia’s offer. We will summarise VA’s current offer compared to your current working conditions. Your negotiating teams have made significant progress from...
USU@AUSGRID: Security of Critical Infrastructure (‘SoCI’)
As you may have seen in communications sent out by Kelly Wood on March 2, the combined energy unions and Ausgrid are holding workshops that are scheduled to begin later this month. We can confirm that there will be 2 workshops of 2 days each. These meetings are...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AWARD 2023 UPDATE: ATTACK ON AWARD REDUNDANCY ENTITLEMENTS!
LGNSW, on behalf of your council, are attacking your redundancy entitlements. Item 22 on the Employer’s Log of Claims for the new Award says: “Amend subclause 42(vi) ‘to provide that the Job search allowance is inclusive of fringe benefit tax’. The Job Search...
