USU @ Newcastle “Cooked Up” Wages – Council bosses set to lower the pay of the lowest-paid

Dec 7, 2021

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 TRAINING! Our lunch & learns – December

Dec 3, 2021

Due to the current Covid-19 lockdowns in NSW we have been running our very successful and popular Lunch and Learn sessions conducted by our Educator Narelle Rich. Register for our sessions below. Contact Narelle on nrich@usu.org.au if you have any questions.December...

USU/ASU secures better roster certainty

Dec 1, 2021

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...

USU TRAINING! Local Government (State) Award Series “Workplace Bullying

Nov 29, 2021

Due to the current Covid-19 lockdowns in NSW we have been running our very successful and popular Lunch and Learn sessions conducted by our Educator Narelle Rich. This week is the next in our Local Government (State) Award Series “Workplace Bullying”. No need to...