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

Sydney Water is restricting members’ eligibility to receive their childcare allowance.

To be eligible for the allowance you must be the primary carer and return to work at least 3 days a week. Additionally it is only offered for the first 3 years of the child’s life. Members of the ASU disagree with these restrictions and have identified a number of issues regarding these illogical restrictions:

Robyn and Kim are both working mothers who have been using Sydney Water’s current childcare centre KIRA, located at Paddington for the last 4 years.

Sydney water head quarters is moving to Parramatta and the need to establish a new
childcare centre follows this move.

Sydney Catchment Authority’s Award expires at the end of this year and negotiations have begun to accelerate the formation of a new Award.

Job description: Waste Water Treatment Operator and a Hunter Water Australia employee.

ASU members in civil maintenance have been ordered to refrain from all forms of industrial action until midnight 28 July 2008.

Please be advised that there is a combined public sector unions delegates meeting on Thursday 3rd July 2008 10.00AM at the Unions NSW Auditorium, Sussex Street, Sydney.

This meeting has been called to discuss the NSW State Government’s Wages Policy and the inadequate wages increase of 2.5% that is on offer to Public Sector Workers in the face of a 4.2% inflation rate that is affecting us all.

It is important that you attend this meeting to voice your opinion and hear what other Public Sector Workers are saying.

If you need any further details contact the ASU office on 02 9310 4000

Sydney Water has been so determined to cut costs that it was prepared to overturn long standing workplace practices to allow contractors on to its sites without being accompanied by authorised production officers. in an effort to cut overtime and other payments the management at Sydney Water, without any consultation, has attempted to abandon this practice.