2011 Murray Goulburn Campaign
Final offer on the table
Congratulations to the bargaining team, after 12 long meetings with Murray Goulburn management - your delegates believe they have o good offer from the company that they can recommend to all members.
You can see the report back from delegates today on the right of the screen, and delegates will be meeting with members over the coming weeks.
Casual rights, 12 hour shifts, a fair disputes procedure and a wage offer have all been won by your unity on site and across all Murray Goulburn sites.
Contact your delegates for more information.
Members' support
NUW members Julie Humphries and Brian Lawson talk about the issues and claims they think are important in the current Murray Goulburn EBA campaign.
More members have their say
Murray Goulburn members; Rodney, Neil and Danny, talk about the key claims that are important to them and future Murray Goulburn workers.
What issues do you care about in 2011 EBA negotiations?
Murray Goulburn members Alison and Eric tell us what they think about the current EBA negotiations
Third EBA meeting – 8/7/2011
Today the company put forward their offer. It was later confirmed in an email from the company:
"The company makes an offer for the renewal of the agreement and an increase to wages and applicable allowances as follows:
- Four year agreement commencing 1 July 2011 expiring 30 June 2015.
- 2.5% increase paid first pay period on or after approval of agreement by Fair Work Australia.
- 1.0% increase paid first pay period on or after 30 November 2011.
- 2.5% increase paid first pay period on or after 31 May 2012.
- 1.0% increase paid first pay period on or after 30 November 2012.
- 3.5% increase paid first pay period on or after 31 May 2013.
- 3.5% increase paid first pay period on or after 31 May 2014.
Offer conditional upon a discontinuance of all claims (both logs) about which the parties are apart. I refer to the categorisation of these items agreed at today's meeting."
See the delegates video report back from the third meeting on the right hand side of the screen.
Second EBA meeting –7/7/2011
For a report back after the second meeting, have a look at the video message from your delegates on the right hand side of the screen...
Murray Goulburn delegates have gone into their second EBA meeting this morning in Victoria. They had two hours to prepare and go over what has been happening at their different sites of the past few weeks.
Delegates discussed the huge achievement in gaining 528 signatures on petition that they will hand to the company today; demanding that Murray Goulburn workers at Tasmania's Edith Creek site, be treated with the same respect and are awarded the same rights as in Victoria.
They have reported their aims on the left in 'Report before meeting 2' and will let all members know how the second meeting went this afternoon. Stay tuned.
New members unite at Edith Creek
Over 30 Edith Creek workers attended an off site meeting on Sunday 17 April to learn more about the NUW and pay and conditions at Murray Goulburn sites in Victoria. Derek Dent, NUW Delegate at Murray Goulburn in Leongatha, was inspiring as he talked about what workers can achieve when they stand together. As a result of the meeting we have an additional NUW delegate at Edith Creek and have doubled our union membership. Congratulations to Edith Creek!
Murray Goulburn EBA campaign 2011
Our Union is off and running to negotiate our Murray Goulburn 2011 Collective Agreement.
The Agreement covers members at Cobram, Kiewa, Koroit, Laverton, Leongatha, Maffra, Nutritionals, Rochester and West Melbourne.
To support the campaign our own Union Bargaining Team has been established. The Team is charged with being responsible for co-ordinating the negotiations. It’s made up of elected site delegates and will meet regularly over the campaign.
A goal of the campaign is to be strong and united. It’s important that all members employed at Murray Goulburn “stick together”.
Our campaign will be based on issues. We will campaign on those issues that are important to our members. The issues will also need to be winnable. We want to make a real impact on our members working conditions.
We also want to stop Murray Goulburn from employing workers at Edith Creek under inferior conditions. Our Union can’t let this continue. All workers at Murray Goulburn should be paid the same wages and get the same conditions. We need to fix it as part of this round of bargaining.
To let the Murray Goulburn workers in Tasmania know about pay and conditions in Victoria, and show your support, visit our Facebook site
