At the 15 November 2021 Joint Consultative Committee (JCC), Coal Services (CS) tabled that it wanted to begin Enterprise Bargaining in the early New Year and was proposing to put out the Notice of Employee Representational Right (NERR) during December of 2021.
The CPSU NSW understands that CS employees were issued the NERR for employees covered under the Coal Services Enterprise Agreement 2019 on 6 December 2021. As CPSU NSW union members, your union is automatically at the table and will be representing members in the upcoming negotiations.
Any CPSU NSW member who would like to be part of negotiations should contact Ian Braithwaite on 0400 859 630 to discuss the process and how they can be part of the negotiations. The CPSU NSW would like to see representation from both Coal Mines Insurance as well as Coal Services Health. Feel free to contact Ian Braithwaite and see if this is something that would interest you in shaping your conditions within the Enterprise Agreement. A copy of your current agreement is located HERE.
CS and the CPSU NSW will have a preliminary meeting on January 25 2022 to discuss times, locations and protocols for the negotiations. We will kick off with the first negotiation meeting on the 10 February 2022.
In the meantime, Newcastle Regional Organiser Ian Braithwaite will visit each location on the following dates to discuss the process and to create a Log of Claims (LOC) on behalf of CPSU-NSW members.
Lithgow 17 January 2022
Mudgee 18 January 2022
Speers Point 19 January 2022
Woonona 20 January 2022
Sydney 24 January 2022
Meeting times for all sites are to be advised.
Once a Log of Claims has been formulated, the CPSU NSW will send out a Survey Monkey requesting members to endorse the claims so that we can formally table our claim at the first meeting in February 2022.
The CPSU NSW would like to wish our members a safe and prosperous festive season and thank members for their support through these precedential times we have recently experienced.
Have yourselves a Very Merry Christmas and see you all in the New Year!
