Industrial Reports Jan 2020 Industrial Report July 2021 MEMBERS’ MONTHLY MEETINGS Will be on Tuesday 27th July 2021, commencing at 1300 AEST. It will be held physically at the AMOU Fremantle Office (1 High Street, Fremantle WA) from 1100 local time. All full financial members are invited to express interest in attending the meeting virtually. Please email jarrod@amou.com.au and you will be sent a link to attend. 01 President’sFederal Report Mark Davis Executive Officer • Nationwide virtual monthly meeting New Mid-week crew change clause • New Internet clause to address the deficient service. The next meeting will be held from 1300 to 1500 hours AEST on Tuesday 27th July. This month’s meeting will be virtual for everyone MATV Sycamore settlement in the country unable to attend the physical meeting at the AMOU • Wage increases of 8.67% from 24 November 2021. Fremantle Office (1100 local time). All financial members are • 4-year EA term with wage indexation annually in November invited to express an interest in attending the meeting virtually. • Company superannuation contributions increased to 13.5%. Please email Jarrod Moran at jarrod@amou.com.au and you will • Increase in the travel grid allowances. be sent a Teams conference link on Monday. The meeting will be • Increase in meal allowances above previous indexation formula. chaired virtually by AMOU President Ken Blackband, and will be • Day rooms clause now provided for in the agreement. attended in some form by available Executive Councillors and • Safety clothing clause incorporated in the agreement. industrial staff. The agenda is as follows: • Employee amenities clause incorporated in the agreement. • Increase of personal/carer's leave to thirteen days per annum. Commencement at 1300 hours AEST • Increase of paid compassionate leave five days per annum. Apologies • New Conflict zone clause. 1. Agenda and any other business to be notified & dealt with under • New Counselling clause. item 5. • New Overcycle clause. 2. Membership and finances. • New Leave in advance clause. 3. Latest news – 1 main subject per industrial staff member • New Job share clause. 4. Matters arising from the Industrial Report. • New Study Leave clause. 5. Any other business • New Revalidation clause. Conclusion at 1500 hours Times: Trident LNG & Continuity of Operations QLD, NSW, VIC & TAS 1300 hours Agreement (COA) SA & NT 1230 hours Now that the Trident EA has been approved and is being WA 1100 hours implemented, the emphasis of the AMOU and STAPL has turned to ensuring suitable Chief Officers and Second Officers fulfil the Teekay prerequisites for promotion to the higher rank and are fully ready to EAs have been concluded with Teekay Marine Resources for ADV be mobilised into the higher capacity should a vacancy arise. The Ocean Protector and Teekay Shipping Australia for MATV countdown to life after the North-West Shelf Project in what is likely Sycamore and have been unanimously approved by AMOU to be Q1-2 2024, is guaranteed to generate instability amongst sea Members. The settlements were strategically important to staff and the search for alternative employment. A Master’s position Teekay to be able to demonstrate industrial stability on what we has become available just today creating opportunities for hope is the threshold of the announcement of the Defence consequential promotions and experience for other AMOU Marine Support Service contract, for which Teekay is preferred members. tenderer for the Offshore service package. ADV Ocean Protector Settlement A number of longstanding disputes regarding leave and overcycle payments are being addressed by Trident, which is very pleasing. It • Wage increases of 8.67% from 24 November 2021. seems there is a desire to clear the backlog to allow the company to • 4-year EA term with wage indexation annually in November focus on the movement of seafarers between State borders to safely • Company superannuation contributions increased to 13.5%. and efficiently join and leave the ships and the unions and COA to • Increase in the travel grid allowances. focus on career options for seafarers for the future. • Increase in meal allowances above previous indexation formula. This week we submitted our AMOU members upskilling and • Day rooms clause now provided for in the agreement. retraining options paper to the COA, which will form part of a survey • Safety clothing clause incorporated in the agreement. to go to all Trident seafarers to prepare for 2024. AMOU Vice • Employee amenities clause incorporated in the agreement. President Brent Warhurst was responsible for preparing this paper in • Increase of personal/carer's leave to 13 days per annum. its entirety and it sets out an array of courses and initiatives designed Increase of paid compassionate leave to 5 days per annum. to increase the marketability of the AMOU members upon departure • New Conflict zone clause. of the tankers. Brent has costed out each of the options as well as • New Counselling clause. provided details of the training providers. It is a superb piece of work • New Overcycle clause. compiled by an AMOU member with a passion for maintaining and enhancing standards and the delivery of training. 02 02 OTSI report – Ferry Pemulwuy – Loss of Control - The Office of Transport Safety Investigations (OTSI) has published a report of its investigation into separate loss of control incidents in July and November 2020 involving the high-speed passenger ferry Pemulwuy on Sydney Harbour. On both occasions, the ferry experienced a loss of primary steering control and took a sudden turn to starboard. The report makes a number of recommendations to improve incident reporting and asset management of critical safety systems. You can download the report from the OTSI website - https://www.otsi.nsw.gov.au/ferry/investigations/ferry-pemulwuy- loss-control Poseidon Sea Pilots (PSP) PSP is pushing ahead with its mobilisation plan for a pilotage service to be up and running for 1st January 2022, with what we assume to be the full support of the Queensland Government, notwithstanding having received no applications for employment from the only licensed Pilots for the Port of Brisbane – those employed by Brisbane Marine Pilots. PSP has still not responded to an AMOU email seeking to negotiate an enterprise agreement for any Pilots they do engage, and we are yet to receive a response from the Queensland Minister of Transport Mark Bailey to our letter of 8th June regarding a failure of PSP to adopt “best practice industrial relations”. This latter failure to respond follows an instant acknowledgement and then no response, a further reminder that also received an acknowledgement and then no response. All very disappointing to have a State with a Labour Government ignore a union seeking enterprise bargaining for the successful tenderer for a State-awarded pilotage service contract. The cynic might suspect that the Government is avoiding answering the hard questions whilst in the background manoeuvring to facilitate a private operation which at the time of the announcement of the successful tender, had no capacity to deliver a pilotage service under the existing licensing and training regime which formed the basis for the Invitation to Offer. 03 Western Area Glenn Andersen Western Area Secretary & Organiser Fair Work Commission - Toll Toll agreed to pay a number of ex-employees for not providing them There are no Covid-19 restrictions currently in place for Perth, or a clear 35-days’ notice of redundancy due to the fact they are aged anyToll parts Energy within the- Fair borders Work of WA Commission for that matter. I have asked over 45 years. By now they would have all received the extra 8-days SolstadLast management if they intend to undertake EBA salary, a worthwhile sum of money. For some reason one member negotiations via online meetings: no answer, as yet. Lucky for was excluded from the Fair Work action, I wrote to Perth Toll SolstadVessel the Inspections walk from their and office Ship to the visits Fair Work building is a management to explain the situation and request that person also shortThis one. The AMOU thinks this online-meeting inaction is be paid. Due to the fact Toll had already backed down when faced purely a stalling tactic. The Fair Work Commission could also see with a FWC hearing you would think payment to this person would itGO as a Offshorelack of good- faith bargaining. be a formality, but no they want to contest the matter. The FWC Members On AMMA (Australian Mines and may not be happy when this issue pops up again in their mailbox. GO Offshore EBA GOMinerals Offshore emailedAssociation) us a copy of their proposed EBA, that’s the Toll doesn’t know it yet, but I have planned more Fair Work one written to cover three departments. In the past I described it Commission visits for them. Because of the never-ending turnover as a one-world EBA. At best it’s a gimmick designed to appeal to of Toll industrial relations/HR staff, I may end up facing the tea prospective offshore clients, at worst it will be used to weaken person at the Fair Work Commission. Considering how Toll treat the industrial strength of the MUA. Any deck officer with any their offshore, and inshore, maritime staff, I imagine lower-level knowledge of the history of industrial relations in the offshore staff depart because they are treated in a similar fashion. industry will know it is not in their own best interests to assist a company, and especially a company like GO Offshore, to weaken Ship visits the industrial power of any maritime union. Ship visits for July: Normand Leader, GO Spica, Far Senator, Mermaid Strait, Deep Ocean, Maersk Mover, Normand Saracen, As predicted in last month’s report GO Offshore management SIEM Thiima, King Bay tugs.
Details
-
File Typepdf
-
Upload Time-
-
Content LanguagesEnglish
-
Upload UserAnonymous/Not logged-in
-
File Pages12 Page
-
File Size-