Originally Posted by
dragon man
You couldn’t be more wrong, and the reason I think the company and current negotiating team are rushing this is they also believe that come December there will be a new AIPA president, executive and negotiating team.
“Rushing it” really?
Long Haul EA9 chapter 5
The parties agree to commence negotiations on an enterprise agreement no later than twelve (12) months prior to the expiry date of this Agreement (or such lesser period as agreed between the parties). The parties will use their best endeavours to complete negotiations for a new agreement prior to the nominal expiry date of this Agreement.
So given the EA expired 2 months ago, AIPA is contractually bound to have started negotiations 14 months ago. We are told substantive discussions only really commenced in the last 2 weeks. This doesn’t seem like rushing to me, it looks like it’s 13+ months overdue.