In October 2013, Deputy President Asbury of the Fair Work Commission approved an agreement covering the Teys Beenleigh plant. The Union opposed the approval of the agreement. Teys staff were solely responsible for drawing up the roll of voters and Read More
Read moreAs reported in the last update on the 4th of May, EBA talks had stalled at Oakey. Following departmental meetings conducted at the Oakey site on Wednesday the 21st of May, negotiations for the new EBA are to resume on Read More
Read moreFollowing on from the previous update on the 4th of May, agreement still has not been reached in EBA talks. The members have voted in favor of applying to the FWC (Fair Work Commission) for a protected action ballot. An attendance Read More
Read moreColes Enterprise Agreement (EBA) negotiations have commenced in Melbourne. The company intends to apply a new national agreement to all workers in its supermarket operation. Currently all State Coles meat units have separate EBA’s in place negotiated by the AMIEU Read More
Read moreSCENES FROM THE JBS AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED BOARDROOM UPON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE CORPORATE TAX CUT Tony Abbott – cutting company tax, slugging pensioners and working families while big business is raking in the cash On 13 May Read More
Read moreNegotiations have centered around a number of different shifts to cater for the company’s expanding operations. The company wants shifts to operate 7 days a week. With the increase in workloads the Company is expecting, the committee has made it Read More
Read moreNegotiations between JBS Representatives, the AMIEU and the Consultive Committee have been unable to come up with an agreed proposal to put back to the workers for a vote. The Committee and the Union have made it clear that any Read More
Read moreJBS Beef City has put forward an EBA without the agreement of the negotiating committee and the Union. A vote was conducted on the 27th of March 2014 with 82% of the workplace rejecting the proposal. The committee intends to resume talks with the Read More
Read moreIn 2013, at the expiration 2010 Teys Beenleigh enterprise agreement, Teys/Cargill embarked on a media propaganda campaign in the name of reforming the meat industry and securing huge workload increases at their Beenleigh plant. Of course it wasn’t as noble Read More
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