Union Organiser

Description

Oversees, organises and promotes union recruitment, operations, mass meetings and communications. Provides advice to union officials, delegates and representatives, and represents union members in industrial relations disputes or other proceedings. Acts on behalf of their union members to negotiate working conditions, wages and employment opportunities.

Description

This unit group covers Clerical and Administrative Workers not elsewhere classified. It includes Clinical Coders, Customs Brokers, Facilities Administrators, Production Assistants (Audio, Screen or Live Performance), Production Coordinators (Audio, Screen or Live Performance), Radio Dispatchers, Strata Managers, Survey Interviewers and Union Organisers.

Tasks include

• Oversees and promotes union operations
• Recruits new members to the union
• Advocates for reform or regulation of industry
• Provides advice to other union officials
• Develops effective structures, including union members' communications, at worksites
• Runs mass meetings with union members
• Identifies and develops new and existing delegates, and health and safety representatives
• Uses knowledge of legislation, awards, collective agreements, employment contracts and wage payment systems to represent union members in industrial relations disputes and assist in disciplinary proceedings, tribunals and courts
• Represents union members in negotiations or at conferences
• Visits union members at their place of work to check conditions