ARTC NSW INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2018 – APPROVED BY THE FAIR WORK COMMISSION!

Bulletin: 10/19

To: All RTBU ARTC Infrastructure Members.

ARTC NSW INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2018 – APPROVED BY THE FAIR WORK COMMISSION!

Your enterprise agreement has finally been approved by the Fair Work Commission (FWC)!

One of the longest fights in the history of ARTC took place over the last 2 years in what began with the Company attacking your union rights, training and classifications, allowances and pay rates.

In the end, through your collective union power you beat back cuts to your workplace conditions and achieved a fair agreement that respected your union rights, improved your allowances, improved your classification structures, improved your training and progression and provided you with a pay rise above what the unfair workplace bargaining policy allowed for.

You should all be tremendously proud of yourselves.

Our organising, our workplace union structures and our activism will not cease now that this enterprise agreement negotiation is over.

We will not stop preparing for the next enterprise agreement, everything that we can possibly do together will be done from now until the expiry of this agreement to ensure a successful outcome.

We will prepare to fight for what you deserve; a wage that is in line with the work and productivity you provide.

Union members in ARTC Infrastructure have never been more united.

That unity will be in full force when we return to the negotiation table in 2022.

ARTC can either prepare to pay a respectable pay rise or face the consequences.

In Solidarity and congratulations brothers and sisters!