Originally Posted by
Airblast
Genuine question. What does the AOA actually achieves on behalf of its members in 2022?
For instance, my COS have been casually amended to our detriment by the company several times in the past twelve months. Was the AOA consulted or informed and able to resist?
At a very basic level, if a union has zero influence on the way our contracts are devised and revised, then I’m afraid the rest is just superfluous.
Basically nothing for 2 reasons that I can see
1 The members are not united or prepared to strike this was very obvious in 99 and hasn’t changed since . This weakens any bargaining strength the AOA has
2 The GC hasn’t been very good at negotiating for the reasons in 1 above .
‘the union is only as strong as the weakest members