Cleanaway’s Erskine Park Site
After 20 months of bargaining, TWU members and workers at Erskine Park have successfully protected and enshrined many of their workplace rights and customs at the depot, which Cleanaway tried to undermine. We’ve achieved these incredible results all because of their continued fight:
- Weekend Work Stopped: Prevented Cleanaway from forcing weekend shifts.
- Overtime Rates Kept: Maintained weekend overtime rates.
- Backpay Secured: Workers received thousands in backpay.
- Pay Increase: 15% raise from Sept 2022 to Sept 2024.
- Total Pay Rise: 23% increase by June 2027.
Cleanaway’s UNANDERRA Site
In another win for waste workers, the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission has issued its second ever workplace determination decision for Cleanaway’s Unanderra site! Here’s what’s been won:
- Big Pay Boost: Immediate 11.5% raise with back pay.
- Future Pay Raises: 3% increases in 2025 and 2026.
- Stable Hours: No changes to current work hours, staying Monday to Friday.
- Job Security: No downgrades in job classifications for current workers.
- Company Violations: Cleanaway failed to negotiate in good faith.
This is Australia’s first and second intractable bargaining workplace determinations, and we couldn’t have done it without you! Congratulations to everyone involved!
TWU Fends Off Coalition’s Attack on Waste Workers’ Conditions
TWU helped block the Coalition from undermining the condition of the state’s waste workers by allowing Councils back into a race to the bottom around tendering contracts.
The Liberals and Nations tried to remove hard fought legal amendments through the NSW Parliament. The Greens, Shooters and Fishers Party and other crossbenchers voted with the NSW Labor Government to stop this outrageous attack and ensure your hard-won job security remains.
This would have meant Councils could return to putting waste collection services out to tender without protecting workers’ wages and conditions, leading to workers being forced to reapply for their jobs, working under inferior conditions and pay.
The Coalition’s efforts were disgraceful and not only potentially hurt sanitation standards the public relies on but also could have undermined the well-being and stability of the workers who keep our communities clean and safe.