2025 will be a huge bargaining year, with 31 Enterprise Agreements expiring across Victorian local government (including 16 across metropolitan Melbourne).
ASU delegates and members have kicked off the campaign for better wages and conditions with a series of blitz activities throughout November.
These blitzes involved delegates and organisers handing out flyers and visiting sites, and having hundreds of conversations with workers about what is important to them.
If you haven’t already, you can complete our log of claims survey here.
Bargaining – and winning improvements to pay and conditions – is fundamentally about power. Starting these conversations now will ensure we can build our influence to achieve really significant outcomes for ASU members in every workplace across the industry.
These activities have involved crucial conversations with workers that are not-yet members of the ASU: building our collective bargaining power within workplaces is fundamental to achieving better results.
Every single ASU member can play an important role: sharing our log of claims survey and having conversations with colleagues – telling them why you joined the union and letting them know why they should join too – is the most effective way to build our numbers in your workplace.
EA 2025 presents some really exciting opportunities for ASU members – in particular through the new laws regarding multi employer bargaining that we are leading the country by testing – and every single conversation we have now will put us in a better and stronger position to make the most of these opportunities to deliver better outcomes for workers.