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Tribunal Rejects Aero-Care Agreement

Fair Work Australia (FWA) has reached its decision on the Aero-Care Collective Agreement 2011 and has refused to approve this agreement.

The ASU has negotiated many agreements in your industry – we believed the proposed Aero-Care agreement was well short of industry standards so we opposed the approval at FWA hearing. Our view has been supported by FWA in its lengthy and detailed decision.

Lots of interesting things were said by Aero-Care management during the FWA hearing. Aero-Care management have admitted that they did the wrong thing in negotiating your Agreement.

Aero-Care management confessed to Fair Work Australia that among other things:

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Solidarity with Philippine Airline Union

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Philippine Airlines to outsource its airport services, in-flight catering and call centre reservations, and lay off more than half of its workforce.

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Emirates Australia Staff – YOU DID IT!

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In late March the word came from Emirates head office in Dubai that the company will implement a pay freeze for the 2012-2013 financial year, effective 1st April. With the rising cost of living in Australia, a pay freeze would mean you’re worse off.

But … Australian staff will still get a pay rise & merit payments!

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ITF condemns Fiji military government’s Air Pacific grab

Global union the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today condemned the Fijian military government’s cynical pretence that its seizure of full ownership of the island’s Air Pacific airline is in the national interest.

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