STATEMENT

Fair Work Act 2009
s.576(2)(aa) - Promoting cooperative and productive workplace relations and preventing disputes

Central SEQ Distributor-Retailer Authority T/A Queensland Urban Utilities; Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union
and
Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union; Australian Workers' Union, The; "Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union" known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU); Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia-Plumbing Division Queensland Divisional Branch; Mr Clive Bateman; Mr Samuel Hutchinson; Ms Debra McGrigor; Mr Bill Collie; Ms Leonie Scalia; Mr David Glynn; Mr John Thomson; Mr Michael Moroney; Mr David Mikanovic
(NA2016/8)

DEPUTY PRESIDENT BOOTH
COMMISSIONER BOOTH

BRISBANE, 19 AUGUST 2016

QUU and others participation in the New Approaches training course.

1. On 16 and 17 August 2016 Queensland Urban Utilities (QUU) and employee bargaining representatives comprising the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), The Australian Workers Union, Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia-Plumbing Division Queensland Divisional Branch, Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union (The Services Union) and a number of individual employees (the parties) attended a two day training course in Interest Based Bargaining conducted by the Fair Work Commission (the Commission).

2. The parties are preparing to commence enterprise bargaining and both QUU and The Services Union have made an application to the Commission under s.576(2)(aa) of the Fair Work Act2009 (the Act) to obtain the assistance of the Commission to support their bargaining.

3. Other employee bargaining representatives, including unions, are in the process of considering whether they wish to join with the QUU and The Services Union in this application.

4. The training course addressed the key principles and processes involved in Interest Based Bargaining. For further information see: The Commission will facilitate discussions between the parties on 29 and 31 August 2016 to consider the way forward for enterprise bargaining at QUU.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT COMMISSIONER

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Central SEQ Distributor-Retailer Authority T/A Queensland Urban Utilities; Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union and Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union;...

[2016] FWC 5840

19 AUGUST 2016

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