Brisbane City Council Enterprise Bargaining Agreement

When we insisted that management commit to continuing to be advised by the mayor, management said the position was still a zero increase. For AWU members, it is important that you can have a say in your new agreement. Opposition Leader Jared Cassidy asked why no other budget solution had been found and said council staff were not aware of the wage freeze until they read about it in the media. The Fair Work Commission can also help employers and workers negotiate with their New Approaches programme. Read more about The New Approaches on the Fair Work Commission website. A few days after the election victory in Brisbane, Mayor-elect Adrian Schrinner announced that these measures would result in all approximately 10,000 council members and council members receiving the same salary. Jones said that in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the union was in daily contact with all councils across the state and that Brisbane City Council “might have thought it would be appropriate to inform us before informing the world in general.”