StarTrack Enterprise Agreement 2025

We met with the Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) on 19 December in Sydney and continued to negotiate for our new Enterprise Agreement (EA2025).

We have continued to make progress in bargaining as we understand that there are now only two core issues that remain outstanding, which are the term of the EA2025 and the superannuation contribution rate. We believe that this is good progress and is a big step towards making a deal.

Next steps

Having made this progress, we are keen to reach an in-principle agreement with the TWU as soon as possible in the New Year.

We have tabled a wage offer of a guaranteed 4% per annum over a 3-year agreement. We genuinely believe this is the best possible outcome for our people. Please share your thoughts on StarTrack’s offer to help our discussions with your bargaining representatives noting our goal continues to be ensuring that we deliver fair wage increases to our people without delays.

We will continue to keep you updated throughout the negotiations on our Enterprise Agreement here. If you have any questions, please raise a query through the People Services Portal by selecting the category “StarTrack EA 2025” or speak to your manager.

I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for your patience and all your hard work over what has been one of our busiest peak periods ever. I am grateful for everyone’s commitment and effort over this period.

For those of you taking time off, happy holidays and enjoy your break and for everyone, whether at work or at home, stay safe.

On 27 and 28 November, we met with the Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) in Sydney and continued to negotiate a consolidated national StarTrack Enterprise Agreement (EA2025). 

We reached compromises and agreements on a variety of claims for both sides including:  

• Job security: maintaining site rates for contractors, labour hire and outside hire as well as endeavouring to have an outside hire ratio of 40%, which moves to 35% in year two of the Agreement. This commitment to job security for our people is market leading and shows how much we value our team members.  
• Paid personal leave: increasing paid personal leave from 2 to 3 single day absences without a medical certificate and introducing a trial for pharmacy certificates for additional single day absences. 
• Health and safety: offering HSRs, delegates, and facility managers 2 paid days to attend the ‘Steering Healthy Minds’ workplace mental health training, as well as more safety training for employees to renew expired Bluecards.  

We believe that this is significant progress and is a big step towards making a deal. 

Next steps 

Having made this progress we are keen to maintain the momentum and reach in principle agreement with the union on outstanding matters as soon as possible. 

This includes our wage offer of a 4% per year increase for three years with the first increase backdated to September 2024.

Please share your thoughts on this offer to help our discussions with your bargaining representatives. Our goal continues to be ensuring that we deliver fair wage increases to our people without delays. This is your opportunity to have your voices heard.  

Questions?

Please raise a query through the People Services Portal by selecting the category “StarTrack EA 2025” or speak to your manager. 

Last week, we presented our wages offer to the Transport Workers’ Union (TWU). Our offer is a wage increase of 4% per year over a 3-year agreement.

If accepted, and an agreement is reached, this pay increase will be backdated to September 2024.

This top-of-the-market offer will drive well-deserved wage growth in recognition of the work you do to continue to deliver for our customers and the community every day.

While we respect that the TWU are seeking a 2-year agreement, the feedback from our team members is that you want the certainty and security of locked-in pay increases that are set to beat forecast inflation over the 3-year term. Our wage offer delivers this.

We are still in negotiations with the TWU, but your feedback and support is critical as we head into the final stages of bargaining.

Our goal continues to be completing bargaining as quickly as possible to give you certainty and security in your pay and conditions without delays.

If you have any questions:

If you have any questions, please raise a query through the People Services Portal by selecting the category “StarTrack EA 2024” or talk to your manager.

On 17 and 18 October 2024, we had a productive third meeting with the TWU in Sydney, to continue bargaining to replace the StarTrack – Transport Workers’ Union Enterprise Agreement 2021 and the StarTrack – Transport Workers’ Union Enterprise Agreement NSW/ACT 2021 with one national agreement.

During the meeting we:

• tabled and discussed a working draft of the new consolidated national EA that was developed following multiple meetings about the draft with the TWU. Our goal is to create a sustainable, clear and fair agreement with harmonised terms and conditions that are easy for employees to understand.
• provided and received further information to assist bargaining in relation to, mental health training, the process for workers’ compensation and measures to increase the representation of women in our workplaces.
• provided responses to some of TWU’s claims.

Whilst discussions were robust, we left the room acknowledging a desire to ensure StarTrack can be strong and competitive and continue to provide secure jobs to you into the future.

Where we have reached agreement on claims, and where we do so in the future, this will be incorporated into the working draft of the new national EA.

Next steps

Our next meeting is on 7 and 8 November 2024 in Sydney. In this meeting, we intend to respond to the remaining Union claims. Consistent with our goal of ensuring that bargaining is completed as efficiently as possible and delivering fair wage increases to our people without delays, this will include presenting our wage increase offer.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please raise a query through the People Services Portal by selecting the category “StarTrack EA 2024” or talk to your manager.

 In August we commenced bargaining with the TWU to replace the StarTrack – Transport Workers’ Union Enterprise Agreement 2021 and the StarTrack – Transport Workers’ Union Enterprise Agreement NSW/ACT 2021 with one national agreement.

On 17 and 18 September 2024, we had a productive second meeting with the TWU in Tullamarine, where they shared their formal log of claims. 

Now that we have received the TWU’s full log of claims, we’ll consider each item and provide responses in due course. We will continue to provide updates regularly.

Negotiating our new Enterprise Agreement will be a complicated exercise, but we are committed to working through this and undertaking bargaining as quickly as possible so that we can deliver wage increases to our people without delay.

Any questions?

If you have any questions, please raise a query through the People Services Portal by selecting the category “StarTrack EA 2024” or talk to your manager.

 On 27 and 28 August 2024, we commenced negotiations with the Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) for a new consolidated, national StarTrack Enterprise Agreement (StarTrack EA 2024) to replace the StarTrack – Transport Workers’ Union Enterprise Agreement 2021 and the StarTrack – Transport Workers’ Union Enterprise Agreement NSW/ACT 2021.

Our goal for this round of bargaining is to create a sustainable and fair StarTrack EA 2024, with terms and conditions that are simple, relevant, easy to read and understand, and wherever practical, are consistent across our operations. We are undertaking the complex task of merging the current operational enterprise agreements but remain focused on ensuring that bargaining is completed as quickly and efficiently as possible, so that we can deliver fair wage increases to our people without delays.

We are yet to receive the TWU’s formal log of claims, but they have provided us with an overview of the matters they will be seeking to discuss. We look forward to receiving the full details of the TWU’s claims at our next meeting in three weeks’ time, which we will then review, consider and respond to.

As negotiations progress, we will keep you updated via email communications and updates on this page.

Any questions?

If you have any questions about the StarTrack EA2024, please raise a query through the People Services Portal by selecting the category “StarTrack EA 2024”.