ESSO UGLY DISPUTE
Luba Grigorovitch Branch Secretary For almost 365 days, maintenance workers from ExxonMobil in Longford have been out on the grass fighting for their basic rights and conditions. In 2017, after being awarded a further seven-year contract, the engineering giant UGL set up a subsidiary company MTCT Services Pty Ltd. Instead of continuing business as usual, […]
STATION CLEANING
Joe Maisano Organiser Under the MR4 contract, Metro Trains are obliged to meet a minimum cleaning standard. If this cleaning standard is not met, the company face heavy penalties for this. The MR4 contract commenced on 1 June 2018, meaning that as of 1 June, if Metro do not abide by these guidelines in the […]
GUARANTEED FORTNIGHT
Darren Galea Organiser For some time now, there have been issues in V/Line relating to the guaranteed fortnight which is in the V/Line Rail Operations Enterprise Agreement 2015 – 2019. Issues were around a staff member arriving to work late and the company docking their guaranteed fortnight from the staff member. Under clause 59 of […]
SAFETY FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT WORKERS
Luba Grigorovitch Branch Secretary For too long, public transport workers have been facing physical and verbal abuse from the travelling public. With assaults continuing to worsen over the last few years, it is time that the Victorian Government stand up and make a change to protect public transport workers. No worker deserves to be abused […]
