AWM - overwhelming support for CPSU bargaining claim
12 March 2010, 1:31pm
CPSU members have endorsed our Bargaining Claim for your next collective agreement.
Your CPSU negotiators will begin advocating your
position to management at the meeting on Monday 15 March. Your demonstrated
support to improve and protect your workplace conditions is the base of our
negotiations.
Features of the claim include:
4% pay increase
Fair
compensation and universal application staff involvement in discretionary work outside core hours related to AWM major events.
No disadvantage or discrimination if staff choose not to participate.
Genuine consultation with facilities for representatives and an opportunity
to influence decisions before they are made.
Job
security and forms of employment - ongoing employment shall be standard.
Workplace rights for employees and your delegates
Protection and improvement of existing conditions of employment through
comprehensively expressing them in the collective agreement.
We present your endorsed claim to management for
their consideration.
We anticipate that management will present some
claims of their own for us to consider.
We will organise to meet you, report back on the
outcome, take your feedback and get back to negotiations.
Remember, your feedback and support will determine
outcomes all the way.
How can we win?
Your support is vital to show management we are committed
to securing good pay and conditions. If you want an agreement that provides a
competitive pay rise and enforceable conditions, you need to: