From today, CEPU members from across Australia will be engaging in rolling work stoppages.

This decision comes after senior management notified our members that they would not be paid for any day on which they engaged in partial work bans.

From the outset we sought to run a campaign that would minimise public disruption, during the busy Christmas period.

However, senior management have taken the unnecessarily harsh legal stance of withholding an entire days pay for following a work ban for as little as 15 minutes.

This represents a serious escalation of the dispute, as far as we’re concerned.

We have written to Post twice calling on them to re-think their hardline approach – but they adopted a typically uncompromising stance.

Today, the Divisional Executive decided to launch a nationwide series of stoppages.  NSW will be encouraging action to be undertaken by members throughout this week in support of the nationwide stoppages.

The CEPU wrote to Australia Post last week inviting senior management to get involved in finding a way to reach a settlement to the dispute.

Both the Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer refused to participate in discussions, even though the CEPU indicated it was prepared to meet Friday, over the weekend and yesterday to help broker a solution to the dispute and reach a new fair EBA7.

While Post senior executives happily take home $8 million a year in pay, they fail to prove their worth in sorting out workplace disputes of this magnitude and despite having 3 long years to do so.