The ballot is now open! You have until Thursday 27 November to vote ‘no’ to MyState’s proposed Enterprise Agreement and tell management we deserve better.
If you haven’t received your email from GoVote with details about how to vote, contact your manager immediately.
Compared to the last offer, MyState’s current proposal:
- does not provide backdated wage increases, which had previously been offered (that’s despite management delaying negotiations by two months after we voted no and tabling an aggressive agenda of cuts).
- provides a further 3% pay increase over three years (totalling 12%) for bands A, B and C – but at the cost of Company Performance Bonuses and cuts to long service leave and redundancy for new employees.
- provides bands D and E with only an additional 1% pay increase, totalling 10% over three years (much of this ‘increase’ has been taken away by their refusal to backdate pay increases).
- does nothing for Auswide staff, who lost four wellness days per year and overtime payments for part-timers (when these were removed, Auswide staff were told they would have an opportunity to negotiate conditions as part of the Enterprise Agreement).
- does nothing to protect working from home/remote working arrangements (MyState even proposed a requirement to get staff back in the office four days a week).
- does nothing to attract new staff to MyState by addressing workloads and staffing issues.
- risks our future entitlements – cutting redundancy and long service leave for new staff is a risk to current staff too. Already, MyState has reduced redundancy pay from 52 weeks capped to 40 weeks.
We’ve developed detailed FAQs outlining the various ways management’s offer doesn’t stack up, as well as information about MyState’s proposed stream A/B arrangement.
Read FAQs
Please vote as soon as possible – and be sure to tell your colleagues to vote ‘no’ to MyState’s dud offer 2.0 as well!
