City of Port Phillip EA Survey - September 2019

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Your ASU bargaining team has met with CoPP for several meetings over the general provisions in the ASU log of claims, and held several appendix meetings for relevant areas.

We have not reached in principle agreement, and appendix meetings are not yet finalised, however council has tabled an offer to CoPP staff as below:

Pay increases of Year 1: 2.5% | Year 2: 2% or rate cap whichever is greater | Year 3: 2% or rate cap whichever is greater
Extension of Family Violence leave to 20 days per annum (from 15 days).
5 days pre-natal leave for attending appointments associated with assisted reproduction (eg IVF, egg donation, insemination), pregnancy and adoption.
12 weeks paid leave for surrogacy (6 weeks prenatal, 6 weeks postnatal where the employee is the surrogate.)
Additional 5 days paid personal leave in the event of a termination or miscarriage after 20 weeks of pregnancy, or the stillbirth or death of a child.
Documented commitment to current practice of paying superannuation on paid parental leave.
Special paid leave for employees who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders to undertake significant cultural or kinship obligations or to undertake voluntary activities.
Study leave to be extended to include online studies (currently only available for class, lecture, tutorial, exam attendance) and increasing the cap for financial assistance for studies from $3,000 to $4,000 per annum.
Ability to cash out excess annual leave subject to the employee maintaining an annual leave balance of 4 weeks.

A high number of claims are not agreed, with an initial priority list being collated in member meeting on 19 September. We now seek members confirm your priorities as we enter into the last few weeks of finalising your next EA. Please complete the survey and send on the link to others in your work area.

Results will assist in our efforts to make Council a better place to work by enabling us to develop a log of claims that represents the needs of members.

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* 1. Do you support Council' s offer as it stands?

Yes

Need to finalise relevant appendix before I can consider offer

I need more information about the context of the pay offer

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* 2. Which claims matter the most to you, please rank your top 5 from the shortlist below (1 is the most important, 5 is less important).

Claim 2. GPS surveillance principles strengthened in EA

Claim 4. Parking permits for centres in high risk areas with early/late spread of hours i.e. childcare and libraries

Claim 5. Pay increases

Claim 8. Health and well being allowance/recognition

Claim 9. End of band recognition

Claim 12. Extra superannuation

Claim 18. Increase in redundancy pay

Claim 25. Disciplinary procedure allowing natural justice, right of representation principles

Claim 34. Option for 9 day fortnight

Claim 55. Hours worked above core hours reviewed and adjusted

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* 3. If you have any other comments or additional claims to the above, please specify:

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* 4. If your most important claims are NOT included in the final offer, how would you vote for the EA? (Tick one)Are you a union member?

Yes, I'd vote for it

No, I need to see 1 or 2 more of my priority claims in the offer to vote yes

No, I need to see 3 or 4 more of my priority claims in the offer to vote yes

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* 5. If you would vote no for the EA, are you prepared to do other activities to support your priority claims? (Tick as many as apply, noting some are forms of protected industrial action subject to a formal vote in the event members seek to use these strategies)

Yes – become a contact or delegate in my area (please leave your name and details in comments box)

Yes – changes to regular work routine eg not attending meetings with management

Yes – making the issues we’re fighting for visible such as email signatures, wearing badges, fleet vehicle signage, phone messages, etc

Yes – a ban on participating in e-plan processes

Yes – not complying with usual restrictions on making comment or distributing information to the public, ratepayers or the media

Yes – work bans eg on overtime, on specific tasks and duties such as issuing tickets, processing invoices, collecting data or ratepayers stats

Yes – stop works of 15 minutes, 30 minutes, one hour, two hour, four hour, eight and a half hours and/or twenty four hours duration

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* 6. Are you a current ASU member?

Yes

No, not interested in joining

No – interested in joining, I want to make CoPP a better place to work (Please leave name and contact details below)

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* 7. Contact details:

Name:

Email:

Mobile: