Bargaining meetings at Apple Australia resume in 2023! An important update for all workers covered by the NEA
Welcome back!
We have had a few meetings over the past week on the 21st, 28th & 29th of March. Ostensibly these meetings concerned bargaining on scheduling in the Retail and AHA space. The evidence so far proves Apple isn’t directly interested in doing any genuine bargaining. Apple, for the most part, has only responded to TBC against most claims so far.
Media articles have likened Apple’s behaviour as as that of a schoolyard bully in their approach to these bargaining meetings. The Apple Bargaining Team has taken an American anti-union approach in which they made an implied threat of redundancies and casualisation if Apple was forced to improve rostering practices even to an Award standard. Apple is pushing managers to drive the narrative that Apple did not claim that job cuts were mentioned.
Read more about it here: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/a-schoolyard-bully-australian-union-escalates-apple-dispute/news-story/67b8f735364242cb429034e18a7b8b45
ASU is taking Apple back to the Fair Work Commission with a bargaining dispute, given their conduct thus far at the bargaining table. Apple has yet to provide proper positions or wage offers following the voting down of an unfair enterprise agreement offer. This is after eight months of bargaining.
ASU is hosting an Apple Workers meeting TONIGHT Thursday, the 30th of March, at 8 PM to combat Apple’s narrative and misleading communications to workers. We will be discussing bargaining updates and the FWC hearing. Please register here