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SDA Tas OFC.Indd AUTUMN 2015 Offi cial Journal of the Shop, DistribuTasTalk ve and Allied Employees’ Associa on, Tasmanian Branch YOUR SDA 2015 AFL FOOTY FIXTURE TheTh new Coles C l EnterpriseE t iA Agreement is currently being voted on, IS INSERTED so members including Tracey Fisher, Mark Ford, Carolyn Plapp, IN THIS Belinda Wilson (Delegate) and Kylie Stewart from Coles ISSUE Devonport can look forward to improved wages and condiƟ ons in the near future. Have you got SDA PEOPLE SDA what it takes... to be our 2015 Footy Tipping champion? The SDA Tassie Footy Tipping Comp is on again in 2015! Our top tipster each week will win a double movie pass and the glory of their name being published here in each edition of TasTalk. The overall winner at the end of the season will receive two tickets to a 2015 Preliminary Final in Melbourne, including airfares and accommodation. Registrations are now open. Just go to www.sdatas.asn.au and click on the “Footy Tipping Competition” link to sign up! YOUR UNION PAUL GRIFFIN JAMES RUSSELL CAROL WADLEY SDA TASMANIAN BRANCH General Secretary Assistant to General Secretary Education Training Head Office: and Southern Enquiries and WorkCover Officer Officer and Women’s Officer 72 York Street (PO Box 1289), Launceston Tas 7250 Phone 6331 8166 E-mail [email protected] ANDREW COYLE JODEE INCHES STEPHANIE BOK Website www.sdatas.asn.au North West Organiser Southern and Fast Food Northern Fast Food Organiser and Recruitment Officer Organiser and Youth Officer Hobart Office: Phone 6234 1118 MELISSA READ JANINE WILSON KAREN BROWN Southern Organiser and Office Administration Fast Food Recruiter Manager Assistant 2 SDATasTalk EDITORIAL A Flying Start to 2015 by Paul Griffi n, However, members should be On a posi ve note, despite job losses General Secretary mindful that our strength lies in the in the public service, Tasmania’s number of Union members at the jobless rate is currently 6.5% which is workplace. a much improved fi gure, and is now It is well known that unionised shops only 0.2% from the na onal average. Welcome to the fi rst edi on of reap greater benefi ts than outlets Although this is good news, there are TasTalk for the year! where li le or no membership s ll workers who are under-employed Although we are well into exists. Therefore, encourage your and looking for addi onal weekly 2015, much work has already workmates to join the SDA – our hours. been completed by the SDA, in bargaining strength is in our ORGANISERS par cular, the rollout of the new numbers. HARD AT WORK Agreement in Coles stores where IT’S FOOTY TIME AGAIN! I am pleased to report that SDA all employees are scheduled In this edi on, be sure to read up on Organisers are working over and for signifi cant increases upon a the SDA Footy Tipping compe on above in all three regions, ensuring posi ve result in a ballot of the members fully understand the benefi ts which gives members an opportunity proposed Agreement which is of the proposed Coles Agreement as to a end an AFL Preliminary Final for taking place at the end of March. well as addressing the usual workload two at the end of the season – if you SDA Organisers have been busy in of member enquiries and store visits. become the top pster. all Coles stores, detailing the wage This year promises to be a very busy Other compe ons and giveaways increases and the maintaining of one, and as usual, we’ll keep you will also be available throughout penal es and rostering principles. informed of what’s happening around 2015, as well as the educa onal Employees in the Meat Units, your workplace. scholarships for students as they where many are SDA members, prepare for their studies in 2016. are big winners in the proposed Agreement, with Butchers CHALLENGES AHEAD stop press! scheduled for a $160.35 increase Poli cally, across the country, we PENALTY RATES by December 2016. have seen conserva ve governments The majority of our members lose power which some columnists Nego a ons with Woolworths are are under Enterprise believe is the result of the general well under way and mee ngs took Agreements which protect place earlier in March this year. community rejec ng a acks on members’ en tlements and Medicare, reasonable wages and While these two are the major penalty rates. Other retail rights at work. Agreements recently a ended to, workers in Tasmania are covered In Tasmania, the State Government nego a ons and discussions are by the Na onal Modern General con nuing with other companies has made massive cuts to Retail Award. such as Prouds, Angus & Coote, employment in the Public Sector Recent media reports in rela Super Retail Group, Big W, which in turn has had an impact on to penalty rate cuts on Saturday Offi ceworks and Woolworths on other services throughout the in exchange for higher base Petrol. community. wage rates apply to South In every case, the SDA will be In par cular, the retail sector will Australia ONLY, and have no not receive the same sales which targe ng the best possible wage eff ect whatsoever in Tasmania. increases and working provisions then puts pressure on the hours of guaranteed under an Enterprise our members in supermarkets and Agreement. department stores. SDATasTalk 3 NEWS What’s Happening around the S and the Nation by James Russell, This policy of the SDA to bring these Upon a reasonable wage increase being Assistant to General workers under the one Agreement struck, a new Agreement should be in Secretary commenced in the early 1970s. place to operate from 1 July 2015. At that me, a number of unions WATTYL PAINTS covered members in supermarkets, The SDA con nues to work hard The Tasmanian Branch has nego ated represen ng Storemen and Packers, to get the best possible wages and no less than seven Enterprise Bakers, Butchers, Clerks and condi ons for members, and this Cleaners. Agreements with Wa yl Paints since year, the work has con nued. 1995, and has secured signifi cant Many of those unions no longer exist wage increases well above paint Here’s where we’re at in some of the or have amalgamated into other current nego a ons. unions, while some are in serious salespeople employed by Wa yl Paints in mainland States. COLES SUPERMARKETS decline. ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT WOOLWORTHS The previous Agreement expired in June last year and a conclusion to The SDA concluded nego a ons Nego a ons commenced in late nego a ons was held up because of with Coles Supermarkets in early 2014, with a resump on at the end the diffi culty in securing a standard December 2014 where a suitable of January this year, for the next percentage annual increase as in wage increase of 3% per annum Na onal Enterprise Agreement to cover employees in Woolworths previous years. compounding over three years was supermarkets. achieved. In early March, infl a on Wa yl Paints is now owned by the was gauged at 1.7%. Such mee ngs are held at the SDA American company Valspar who have Offi ce in Sydney and by mid March, an understanding of industrial rela ons Although the current Agreement a number of claims remained less generous than the SDA has expired on 31 May 2014, the SDA outstanding, including discussions achieved over the years with Wa yl. was able to nego ate no less than in se ling an appropriate wage two interim wage increases which Given a package of 2% per annum increase. occurred on 30 June 2014 with increase and an increase of me and Mee ngs are scheduled into April backpay, and 1 January 2015. a half to double me for the fi rst and as more posi ve results emerge, two hours of over me on a Saturday, A ballot of members in all stores on the Branch will inform members at members agreed to a three-year the new Agreement has started, and store level via no ces in staff rooms arrangement on this basis. the next increase is scheduled on the and the direct emailing system. date a posi ve vote is achieved. WOOLWORTHS PETROL In a fi nal ballot on 12 March, members voted unanimously to proceed with the For the fi rst me, an SDA Agreement The current Agreement expires on Agreement. will cover all employees within the 30 June 2015 and it is expected a four walls of Coles Supermarkets, new proposal will be available for The fi rst instalment of $19.80 and including meat unit employees, members to examine before this backpay to June 2014 will be paid upon cleaners and trolley collectors. date. a Decision of the Fair Work Commission. 4 SDATasTalk NEWS e State State Council Election Results OFFICEWORKS In the la er half of 2014, the Australian Electoral Commission conducted an elec on for posi ons of State Council of the Branch. This Agreement has expired and, at the me of expiry, the company The posi ons of President, Vice President and six Councillors were indicated that it was not in a declared vacant, and nomina ons were opened and adver sed for two weeks in the three regional papers on Monday 3 November 2014 and posi on to enter into nego a ons closed at 12 noon on 17 November 2014. to secure a new employment arrangement with the Union on At the close of nomina ons, the number received did not exceed the behalf of its members.
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