So what does everyone think?
My quick calculations....
Current: 125 hrs per month = 1500hrs per year
Proposed: 135 hrs per 28 days = 1759.82 per year
= 17.32% increase in your annual hours
Current: $45047(CC2) per year
Proposed: $47831(CC5) per year
= 6.18% increase in your annual pay.
When you compare the time you spend at work to the pay you receive, the proposed EBA equates to:
11.14% PAY CUT
As for arguing that other allowances have increased, they have only increased by the bare minimum they could get away with anyway - would be getting that anyway! Besides, with DTA gone, you'll be taxed more (as it's proposed to form part of your base wage).
Why is this greedy management still carrying on like this? It can't be that bad if Andrew David is off buying aircraft!? The company looks set to upgrade profit forcasts, and is riding on the wave of the rising australian dollar.
Not only this, but you are cutting the wages of those who may follow in your footsteps - wham - all of a sudden you are too expensive - and with the company's 'magical' performance management system, one day you're a favourite, the next your being hunted by a bunch of unqualified smiling assasins - almost everyone knows someone who's had this happen to them!