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29 February 2008
Workers in Australia have signed their first national agreement with TNT, tackling head on the company’s anti-union stance.
The three-year national agreement was won by the Australian ITF-affiliated Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) in spite of TNT’s anti-worker approach. The company is believed to have lobbied for the draconian union-busting legislation brought in by Australia’s previous government.
According to the union, TNT initially tabled an agreement that was set to wipe out local and national conditions won over decades; the company justified this move by stating that the laws that it had campaigned for was forcing its hand.
However, undeterred, the TWU set about a six-week campaign, establishing a national negotiating committee comprised of grassroots members representing each area in which TNT operates. A new national proposal, which retained and improved workers’ existing conditions, was then submitted by the committee to TNT. In the past agreements with the company had been negotiated on an individual regional level.
The company has now bowed to union pressure and agreed to the national settlement, which includes: recognition of the TWU as the sole union representing transport and distribution workers; up to ten days’ paid delegates’ leave per depot for union training; a commitment to union-only agreements; limitations on and consultation processes regarding the contracting out of any work; a commitment to engage employees on a full-time basis; and wage increases for each year of the agreement.
To overcome the restrictions of the anti-union laws, the settlement consists of an agreement registered in the industrial system and a common law deed, an enforceable contract under general law.
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