Monday, 11 April 2016

Terminating workers' conditions

Now its Australia  http://s196820.gridserver.com/campaign/emailessentialenergy/  see UNIONS NSW and PSI affiliate the ETU actions , as other unions like the PSI affiliate USU move to join in and support the Campaign .....

Earlier in the week http://gmpsiaprec.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/indonesian-affiliates-electricity-from.html covered a face book report of an item covering of on our Indonesian colleagues, campaigning because the energy/electricity authority would not honour an agreement.

Now we have a Government Owned State Energy Electricity Distribution Corporation in Australia trying to use the legal industrial courts to take employees entitlement and wages away.

" When you make an agreement, you stick to It." - says Unions NSW  Secretary ...see below 

Clearly there is something wrong with industrial relations systems that allow this to take place ... could you imagine what employees would do without unions .. ???
Full the full Unions NSW article see the below, can PSI Electricity and Energy Unions in the Asia Pacific region join in and sign on ??? ...

Unions NSW


Essential Energy, a government-run electricity company, is trying to get out of its Enterprise Agreement with 2,300 employees, by applying to the Fair Work Commission to the have the agreement terminated.

The company says it wants to remove “restraints, restrictions and inefficiencies”.  In other words, Essential Energy wants to cut conditions, freeze wages and sack around 800 workers. Australians have always believed when you make an agreement, you stick to It.

In union,
Mark Morey
Secretary
Unions NSW 

PS: If you’d like find out more, click here for a video with more info that includes a speech by Steve Butler, Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union NSW, that he gave to Labour Council last week. 



Unions NSW · Level 3 Trades Hall 4-10 Goulburn St, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia