Last night, after weeks of intense negotiations and planned member strike action, Together gave in-principle agreement to a significantly improved offer for your new HPDO3 agreement. We would like to congratulate members on winning such a strong outcome in your new EB!

Myself, Alex Scott, Michael Thomas and Jason Hunt met with Minister Mark Ryan yesterday and because of the pressure from union members, he has agreed to pay you all a 2.5% interim pay rise on the current EB rates backdated to 1 September.

We have recently received communication from Tabcorp that they wish to start negotiations for your new Lotteries agreement. This is your opportunity to come together with your colleagues and look at your current wages and conditions and think about what you currently love and couldn’t live without, versus what improvements or changes need to be made.

Auscript Members have been raising concerns around workplace stress and anxiety and other OHS issues with the union office.

We recently received communication from the Fair Work Commission (FWC) on the status of your agreement. The FWC has outlined a number of concerns that they had and asked Ramsay for either a response or undertaking to ensure that no employee covered by this agreement is worse off than on the Award (this is called the Better off Overall Test or BOOT).

Your Union delegates recently reached an in-principle agreement for the ASQ Allied Health staff. This means that it is now your turn to vote on whether you approve the agreement or not.

Together has received correspondence from the WMHHS Chief Executive Dr Kerrie Freeman advising of new infrastructure and services across West Moreton over the coming years. See the letter here.

Autism Queensland has labelled the negotiations on the 26th of November as the the last negotiation meeting. At no point during this meeting did either union group think that negotiations were actually complete. A number of issues were still being discussed but despite all of this, Autism Queensland have decided to cease negotiations.  

It is disappointing that Autism Queensland has taken this approach rather than continuing robust discussions. The decision now lies with you and your colleagues as to what you want to do from here.

Management have provided a document about a change proposal for the Children's Health Queensland (CHQ) structure.