BlueScope members win back their rights, 12% increase
Members at BlueScope Steel Westall voted last week to accept a revised company offer for their new Collective Agreement. The deal ends a week long picket after members walked off the job following a break down in negotiations.
Members strongly united against Bluescope Steel
Site Organiser Justin Cartwright and delegates Steve
Confait, Daniel Blackmont and Lawrie Sheehan met with the company on Wednesday
to broker the revised offer for the membership to vote on.
Justin
stated:
"It's a great outcome. Negotiations were stalled at a 3% yearly
wage increase, and after only a week of the members showing their collective
strength and spirit we have added a further 3% to the total 3 year
offer.
"The wage outcome is fair and reasonable, and keeps our BlueScope
members' wages in line with their direct competitor OneSteel."
The deal
also includes a further 9 local claims being met, including the re-introduction
of members' rights provisions that were removed under the former Howard
government's extreme building code regulations.
The members' RDO
entitlements were also cemented into place, as well as superior flexibility
arrangements that protect members' overtime and penalty rates.
