December 2018

Earlier this year your Union wrote to Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate urging her to review the default Superannuation fund arrangements for new employees who are ineligible to join the APSS fund and had not nominated another fund.   A copy of that letter can be viewed by clicking here. This representation came off the back of damaging appearances by AMP in

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This week, members at trial sites across the country commenced week 13 of the One Network Trial. As the trial progresses, feedback from members located at trial sites continues to shape forward momentum as the model continues to evolve. This is being achieved through the local consultative process involving the local working group committees, through higher level consultation with Branch

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CEPU members will be shortly given the opportunity to vote to engage in protected industrial action at Telstra. Only a short time ago, employees forced Telstra back to the bargaining table after resoundingly rejecting their penny-pinching offer of a pay cut in real terms. And we have continued to bargain with Telstra in good faith – advancing your claims for

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Bargaining has continued with Telstra refusing to improve their offer of a measly 1.5% wage rise for Workstream and an equivalent pay pool for Job Family – a pay cut in real terms for both workgroups. In order to break the merry-go-round impasse bargaining had become, the combined Unions Single Bargaining Unit (SBU) put our own offer to Telstra in

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