Please see latest email communication between Churches of Christ and the Fair Work Commission.

Are you ready to find out who’s standing up for a better CSYW on Friday?

This week we have been continuing in the Commission, in the media and yesterday we received a letter back from the Minister offering to meet. This is progress! You can see the Minister's response HERE. 

We will certainly be seeking this meeting as a matter of priority.

Congratulations – you now are halfway through your work bans!

How are you going with the work bans?

Together members across the Department of Education will be going on strike on Monday.

The industrial action notice will allow Together members to go on strike for up to 4 hours AT ANY TIME across Monday 12^th of November. This will allow for local decision making at your site as to when the action will be most beneficial.

On Tuesday night in Brisbane we had another fantastic rally with Together members showing once again what a force to be reckoned with you are! You can see some great pictures and footage from the rally here. The Education and OIR presence at all the rallies and stop work actions across the state has been huge. The 'all talk no action' approach of the government is not fooling us.

Recently we emailed about submissions to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Imprisonment and Recidivism.

Members across the state have been taking strong action to show how strongly they feel about workloads, attraction and retention of staff, and wages.

We've made some progress around the negotiating table but the feedback from delegates and members is – it's not enough (and let's not even get started on a wages 'offer' that delivers 0% to those under PO3, AO4 & OO5!).

Together members have endorsed a suite of work bans to escalate pressure on the Department and force a better offer. 

The following work bans will commence from Wednesday 31 October until Wednesday 14 November: