SBD CEASES - EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
There is no further roll back of SBD. There are no
more round reviews
Because at para 2 of the Post SIB it states:
That is - SBD stops Monday 5 Dec 2011.
There will be a roll out of the delivery method we (CWU) first proposed at the historic meeting of the 21 posties.
The SIB states
(The CWU proposed process)
The mis-sort problem is the key driver. We had not
solved the safety or outdoor times problems.
There are many to thank.
- Those whose opposition brought it to the attention of the CEO.
- Tom - our first member stood down in Tasmania
- Kavina - stood down and who endured legal proceedings
- Those 45 members at Airport West (Vic) and Mt Waverley (Vic)
- Those 6 members in WA stood down
- Those who contributed to the welfare funds
- The 21 posties who met with CWU National Secretary Dan Dwyer and
CEO Ahmed Fahour and spoke frankly about SBD
- Those that made up the working parties
- Those who undertook the trials that delivered the valuable data
- The CWU officials who assisted members
Retail Services Transformation Agreement
Nothing has been decided yet, negotiations continue.
Our team consists of:
- Martin O’Nea: Divisional Assistant Secretary.
- Carol Gee: Industrial/ Research Officer in the Divisional Office.
- Bryan Watkins: Organiser in WA.
- David Law: PM Salisbury, South Australia.
- Cindy Shelley: Retail Organiser in the Victorian Branch.
- Louise Whitefield: PM Victoria, Melton.
- Nathan Metcher: Retail Organiser in NSW.
- Phil Hughes: State Secretary in Queensland
- John Jeffery: PM, Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania
The involvement of Retail employees is essential to the development
of a RSTA. If you have any issues you would like to see on the agenda
for discussions surrounding the RSTA email us at office@vicpt.cepu.asn.au
TELSTRA AWARD MODERNISATION HEARING
SET FOR DECEMBER
Dates have been set for the hearing of the Telstra award modernisation case. The applications by Telstra and the CWU will come before Fair Work Australia on the 5th December.
Telstra has applied to have all its current enterprise awards cancelled and replaced by modern industry awards. The CWU and other Telstra unions have applied for a new modern enterprise award which preserves current entitlements.
The case will be a major test of the award modernisation process which was supposed to leave workers no worse off than they have been under existing awards.
If Telstra’s application is successful, Telstra employees face a lower “safety net” for enterprise bargaining, especially in relation to working hours. It is hard to see how this can be said to leave them no worse off.
Members will be advised of further developments in this important case.
Post Date: 29th November 2011 | Branch Secretary Telecommunications
Delivery News
Separate Bundle Delivery
The Separate Bundle Delivery dispute is progressing, if not quickly enough, at least in the right direction. If you want the full story please attend the meeting and BBQ being held on Saturday, November 19 at 12 noon.
EXCESSIVE OVER-TIME
Another serious issue Delivery members are currently facing is OVER-WORK!
Basically,
if you notify at the beginning of
your shift and provide a reason for not being
available for overtime, that is
all that is required.
Members need to be having a lunch-break every 5 hours. Some employees are now working a second 5 hour period and they need to realise that a second break should be taken. As part of the SBD dispute it has been agreed at the highest level of Australia Post that posties have the right to have their lunch at their depot (or another appropriate location by agreement.)
Some Airport West posties, for example, have implemented a good routine of setting up and going out on delivery then returning in time to have lunch at the Delivery Centre between 11 am and 11.30am, and then working another 5 hours if required and if they are available. It certainly beats having a tea-break at 7.30am and then lunch at 8.30 or 9 am. Employees working full-time hours should also make sure they are taking their second tea-break. It is very important to avoid fatigue especially as the hot weather is approaching. Enclosed is a reminder about working in the heat.
MANAGEMENT’S PLANS TO HAVE PRIMARY-SORTING DONE BY DAY-SHIFT
Management are planning to move the primary sorting where possible to people on 15% penalty rates.
They have had 3 trial sites – East Bentleigh, Hawthorn and Mt Waverley DCs. Because of management greed they have cut too deep at these Centres. Instead of saving 15% labour costs they are, in fact, having to pay people 50% extra to get the work done as the posties necessarily move into over-time. Hawthorn DC for example is currently working 27% over-time. This is not reasonable or sustainable.
Post are also trying to take the fifth week holiday off the night-sorters who are left at these Centres, by trying to change the Sunday night start time. This matter is still before Fair Work Australia. Members should not give up this entitlement.
Without advising the union, management have gone out to several DCs and offered one or two VRPs to night-shift with an exit date of 1 January, 2012. This includes the Dandenong Delivery night-sorters, Airport West, Port Melbourne, Bayswater, Bundoora, Epping, Hoppers Crossing, Heidelberg West, Moorabbin, Mornington, Nunawading, Preston, Richmond, Somerton, St Albans, St Kilda, Sunbury, Templestowe, and Western. If there are not adequate plans to cover this work, it is clear that these redundancies would be a sham and will be disputed.
Post Date: 15th November 2011 | Branch Secretary Postal
The Victorian
Communication Workers
Union P&T Branch has moved to the Federal Office.
Our new address:
1st Floor
139 Queensberry Street, Carlton.
Other contact details remain the same.
Our phone:
1800 222 609 for
country members
Our fax:
03 9600 9133
Postal address:
P.O. Box 1052,
North Melbourne 3051
Email: office@vicpt.cepu.asn.au