| Bupa campaign timeline |
Dec
2016 |
Bupa nurses and carers reject Bupa's offer of a 2.1 per cent wage rise in a one-year agreement, with no other improvements. ANMF barbecue visits all 26 Victorian Bupa nursing homes to discuss ANMF members' Bupa EBA claim and the EBA process.
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Jun
2017
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Bupa nurses and personal care workers vote NO to Bupa's ballot of its proposed agreement of a 2.3 per cent pay rise in a one-year agreement with no other improvements. ANMF places VOTE NO to low wages billboards outside every Victorian Bupa nursing home.
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Aug
2017
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ANMF rejects Bupa's recent offer of two 2.5 per cent wage increases in a two-year agreement with no other changes. ANMF applies to the Fair Work Commission for a protected industrial action ballot.
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12 Sept
2017 |
ANMF VOTE YES to protected industrial action billboards are placed outside every Victorian Bupa nursing home. Ninety two per cent of ANMF members who voted in the Bupa protected industrial action ballot vote YES
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3 & 4 Oct
2017 |
ANMF members at all 26 Victorian Bupa nursing homes start first stage protected industrial action. ANMF starts an online petition to Bupa Chairman Lord Leitch and the Bupa executive which reaches more than 6000 signatures. ANMF runs half page advertisements in major regional and metropolitan newspapers.
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9 Oct 2017
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ANMF members start the first of 15 stop work meetings and community barbecues held across Victoria. |
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25 Oct
2017
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400 ANMF members and supporters rally outside Bupa's Melbourne corporate headquarters.
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31 Oct
2017
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ANMF members start three days of historic full shift strike action. |
8 Nov
2017 |
ANMF member meetings at all 26 Victorian Bupa nursing homes vote to support a proposed enterprise agreement settlement. The proposed settlement includes a 11.25 per cent increase over a three-year agreement with backpay and significant changes to the workload clause, Sunday penalty rate, protection of accrued long service leave entitlement for employees transitioning to retirement, recognition of part-time employees' regular additional hours, ability to use personal leave as family violence leave, improved parental leave clause and improved e-learning clause.
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9 Nov
2017
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All protected industrial action ceases from 7am. |
| Dec 2017 |
An electronic ballot to approve the proposed Bupa enterprise agreement is held. Of those employees who voted, 94.5 per cent voted yes.
ANMF (Vic Branch) launches an email campaign to pressure Federal Aged Care Minister Ken Wyatt to fix weak aged care legislation which allows inadequate staffing in private and not-for-profit aged care nursing homes. Send an email now
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| Feb 2018 |
Due to a technical error, the Fair Work Commission requires a second Bupa ballot to approve the proposed enterprise agreement. ANMF recommends members vote YES again in the ballot which opens from 3pm, Friday 9 February and closes at 3pm, Tuesday 13 February. The ballot result will be declared on Wednesday 14 February. |
