News for Tasmania
Hobart City Council Enterprise Bargaining Report Back Meetings
The ASU and AWU will be holding joint paid-time meetings to provide an update on bargaining for your new Enterprise Agreement. Please ensure you attend to provide your important feedback for us to take back to management: DATE: Wednesday 10 July TIME: 7.15am VENUE:...
Derwent Valley Indoor Delegate Nomination
Given the resignations of both indoor ASU delegates in recent months, the ASU is now looking to fill two ASU delegate positions to be responsible for representing members at the council offices and children’s services. Currently there is a significant amount going on...
Hobart City Council Joint Union Enterprise Bargaining Update
On Thursday 27 June 2019 the bargaining for a new Enterprise agreement continued. There are still a number of issues on the Log of Claims which are being worked through with further negotiations scheduled for next Friday 5 July 2019. Significantly the City of Hobart...
Gary’s Story with Silicosis
Gary McFarlane was good at his job as a sandblaster, but now he wishes he wasn’t. Because perhaps then he wouldn’t be diagnosed with silicosis and lung cancer as a result of breathing in silica dust during his 30-year career. When Gary started out as a sandblaster for...
Wellbeing Days
Have you ever felt like you just needed a day to get back on top of your own mental wellbeing? Have you ever been tempted to take a day of personal leave to get that break but been put off by the need to get sick certificates, or the fear you’ll ‘get caught’ because...ASU Facebook
Everyone has a right to be safe at work and to arrive home safely at the end of the day. Yet every week four people are killed and thousands more seriously injured in Australian workplaces. Working people in their unions are fighting for improved workplace laws and safer workplaces. As part of this work, we are asking all workers to complete the safe at work survey. It only takes a few minutes and is a chance for all every worker to have a say on workplace health and safety.
Complete the safe at work survey now at www.australianunions.org.au/safe_at_work_survey
There are always costs to outsourcing and privatisation. Service quality falls. Workers jobs become insecure. This privatisation has huge costs. Lives put at risk and a repair bill of hundreds of millions of dollars.
www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/cladding-crisis-result-of-building-industry-privatisation-201...
I wonder..where was the cfmeu on this?? Dont tell me they were not on any of these sites.?? I thought they were all about safety??? How come not one whimper was heard?? Lucky to be any building now..no insurance...no work site.... Talk about spite your face john...all FUBAR now.
Exactly. Same with building inspectors before sign off.
Simple, isn't it.
No kidding???