Water & Ports

Sydney Water Attempts to Avoid Consultation

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Published on Monday, 07 July, 2008

Sydney Water has proposed to create two new divisions in business services – an operations division and a maintenance division.

The aim is to take strategic operations away from assets management and align it to a maintenance division, all under business services. This has been done without proper consultation and limited information to staff about these changes.

Unsurprisingly, members are becoming anxious and are keen to approach management to find out information and be involved in any proposed changes. Sydney Water has stated they will consult the union during stage 4 of the proposed changes, but this is not acceptable. Your union should be involved in the process now, not just during the 4 week consultation period that will commence at a much later date.

ASU members must demand management consult with them throughout the process.