The new Employment Relations Act gives you the right to be accompanied by a Union official at disciplinary and grievance cases. This means that the Union can actively assist over a wide range of issues - which could be promotion, discrimination, harassment, or any other major issue that directly affects your personal interests. CWU believes in working together to build good working conditions and excellent industrial relations. By joining the CWU, you can help achieve these objectives. Each person counts - our collective strength vastly outweighs that of each individual.
Good employers like to work with good trade unions.
Because we can jointly identify issues and find amicable solutions before they become problems. By working together we can improve our workplace, and help our members and employers achieve good standards for customers, clients, and staff. Second rate employers don't like to deal with unions. Because they prefer to run things their way. They try to stop the staff having a say in changes of contract for example.