UNE Members' Bargaining Report 5
UNE Members' Bargaining Report 5
General Staff bargaining cancelled
Unfortunately the General Staff bargaining sessions which were scheduled for 26 November and 1 & 2 December were cancelled because the NTEU were unable to attend as their industrial officer could not make it up from Sydney.
It is very disappointing that General Staff bargaining was cancelled, as we have made some significant progress on a number of important claims and the loss of three days of bargaining will unnecessarily delay achieving good outcomes for General Staff.
Further, this may jeopardise the possibility of a pay increase being negotiated before Christmas 2008.
Andrew Holland, your senior industrial officer, nevertheless flew to Armidale and, with the delegates on your bargaining team (Marney Tilley, Kylie Day and Jen Mitchell), worked hard over the two days developing responses to a number of management claims, including workplace change, unsatisfactory performance, misconduct and classification.
We also asked the other parties if one of the scheduled academic bargaining days next week could be used to make up for some of the three days lost for General Staff. The University has agreed but unfortunately the NTEU has declined the request.
Where to from here?
| 1. | Your bargaining team will finalise responses to several outstanding clauses, including managing change, misconduct, unsatisfactory performances and classification. We will provide a detailed update to members ASAP. |
| 2. | The next General Staff bargaining meeting is on the 15 and 16 December 2008. If you have any comments you wish to make to your bargaining team before then, please email or call Kylie Day (6773 4502) |
| 3. | Your CPSU campaign team will continue to make contact with members and potential members to update you about General Staff bargaining and seek feedback. |
| 4. | If you haven’t already signed the petition in support of the right of General Staff to determine your own conditions in a General Staff Agreement please contact either Barbara Avis or Kylie Day. |
| 5. | If you are interested in getting involved to help get the best deal for General Staff please contact Barbara Avis (6773 2030). |
How are we going with our claims?
| CPSU claim | Has UNE agreed? |
| Overtime | |
| Right to reasonably refuse overtime No ban on paid overtime for HEO 8 & above Better overtime payment for part-time staff Casuals to be paid overtime after 7 hours work TOIL accrued at overtime rates |
CPSU confident UNE will agree UNE are considering this CPSU confident UNE will agree |
| Workloads | |
| Workload protections for General Staff Identify excessive workloads as an OH&S issue Workload to be aligned to ordinary hours of work & PD Workload review |
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| Incremental Progression | |
| Staff can respond to adverse reports Staff must be given an opportunity to improve performance Right to dispute adverse increment report (lost under single agreement) Retrospective increment if increment incorrectly withheld (lost under single agreement) |
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| Family and Community leave | |
| Improve so that it's not limited to unexpected family/carer responsibilities Paid grandparent leave Pool relevant forms of leave at 15 days cumulative per year Broaden the definition of family |
Not yet Not yet Not yet Not yet |
| Annual leave | |
| Maintain 5 weeks annual leave (6 weeks for shift workers) Mutual agreement when taking leave (lost under single agreement) Remove prohibition on taking leave prior to retirement or resignation Supervisors must ensure employees can take leave (lost under single agreement) Accumulate 50 days leave, unless otherwise ageed (lost under single agreement) Accrual of extra leave if you work a lot of overtime |
CPSU confident UNE will agree  |
| Probation | |
| Probationary employees must: • receive regular feedback • be informed in writing of performance issues as soon as they arise • be given an opportunity to respond to any concersn about performance • be given a reasonable opportunity and support to improve their performance |
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| OH&S | |
| Reinsert a clause with key porinciples (lost under single agreement) Increase first aid allowance inline with salary increases |
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CPSU & GENERAL STAFF - STRONGER TOGETHER