Alstom Limited

[2015] FWCA 6015

[2015] FWCA 6015

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Alstom Limited
(AG2015/4451)

ALSTOM LIMITED AND THE AMWU (ALTONA AREA) AGREEMENT 2015 - 2017

Manufacturing and associated industries
DEPUTY PRESIDENT GOSTENCNIK	MELBOURNE, 2 SEPTEMBER 2015

Application for approval of the Alstom Limited and the AMWU (Altona Area) Agreement 2015 - 2017.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Alstom Limited and the AMWU (Altona Area) Agreement 2015 - 2017 (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act). It has been made by Alstom Limited. The Agreement is a greenfields agreement.

[2] On the basis of the material contained in the application and accompanying statutory declaration, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186 and 187 of the Act, as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[3] Based on statutory declaration provided by the organisation, I am satisfied that the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), the employee organisation to be covered by the agreement, is entitled to represent the industrial interests of a majority of employees who will be covered by the Agreement in relation to work that is to be performed under it. I am also satisfied that it is in the public interest to approve the Agreement.

[4] The Agreement was approved on 2 September 2015 and, in accordance with s.54, will operate from 9 September 2015. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2017.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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