Last Wednesday your union negotiation team meet with management to try and progress negotiations. Unfortunately management have failed to follow through on their commitment to provide essential information and negotiations have come to a standstill.
Too many delays
After many months we are still waiting on Comcar management to provide:
a draft agreement
information about current AWA rates of pay.
legal advice on casual loading
legal advice around termination of AWAs
information regarding the viability of a 3 hour minimum for Brisbane.
Have YOU signed the petition yet?
In order to keep the pressure on management over these delays, all drivers
are being urged to sign our online petition. To succeed, this petition must have
as many names as possible. Management will only take us as seriously as we take
ourselves. If you have not signed it yet,
click here
3 hours @ fair pay petition
Drivers across Australia are telling the union they want a three hour minimum
call. As they see it, if a three hour call is acceptable for Comcar staff in
Sydney and Melbourne – and for most other casual workers in Australia – it
should apply here too. Apart from a vague and non-committal position regarding
Brisbane, Comcar management are refusing to accept this claim.
AWA rates
Management originally agreed to bring all permanents up to the highest AWA
pay rate. However management’s new position means that casual drivers will be
working on a lower hourly rate than permanents.
Government bargaining framework
Negotiations on this agreement should occur within the Government’s
bargaining framework which sets out the rules for ‘genuine’ bargaining,
involvement of employees and access to union representatives. Rather than comply
with these rules, Comcar management appear intent on ignoring them by not
allowing union Organisers time to speak with you at your monthly depot meetings
and failing to provide timely information to union negotiators
Where to next
The next negotiation meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 2 July. Before then
we need to build as much support for the union position as possible. This means
signing the
petition and joining the union.
When we can demonstrate majority support for our position, we will be able to
put pressure on the Department and the Minister about COMCAR’s unwillingness to
abide by the bargaining framework.
What Drivers need to do
Join the CPSU - Union dues
for casual drivers are only $3.90 a fortnight as of 1 July 2008
