Ahead of an election, you are asked to update your contact details (if they have changed) with the Australian Electoral Commission. A similar principle applies ahead of a protected industrial action vote related to your EBA – with the key difference being that if the ANMF and your employer don’t have matching correct contact details you will not get to vote with your ANMF member colleagues to endorse taking protected industrial action.
The taking of legally protected industrial action can be needed on occasions to achieve the best outcome during EBA negotiations. But to make that happen, at least 50 per cent of eligible members covered by the EBA in each workplace must participate in the vote (and at least 50 per cent + 1 of those must vote yes). If 95 per cent of those voting vote yes, but only 45 per cent of eligible members voted, protected industrial action cannot happen.
So it is critically important, should members determine that we need to take protected industrial action, that you have logged in to the ANMF member portal and checked the contact details we have on file, and updated them if required.
Equally as important is to then ensure that your employer has the same correct details.
Why? To be eligible to vote for protected industrial action, your employer must provide employee contact details to the ballot organiser, and ANMF must also provide member contact details to the ballot organiser. If your ANMF and workplace contact details do not match you will not get a vote.
The details that must match include surname, first name, middle name, date of birth, work email, private email, mobile, postal address and if you work for more than one public sector employer.
The more ANMF members who participate in an EBA campaign – including protected industrial action if required – the more likely we will achieve a better outcome in your next EBA.
Find out more about the EBA process
