Member update: KDH bargaining
August 15, 2025
Dear Members,
After our appearance in the FWC last week, the RTBU agreed to provide a rationalised log of claims for the company (again). The company was also given time to review this. We also agreed that we would hold off any new protected actions while this process was happening.
This week, we asked for the company to release the bargaining committee so we could do further work on the log of claims. They refused.
If KDH isn’t going to uphold their side of the undertakings in the FWC that saw us holding off on further action, then neither are we.
This week the RTBU has written to the company to tell them we consider their actions have broken the undertaking and to explain themselves. We have yet to receive a response.
The legal process will likely continue but in the meantime, your bargaining committee is considering more actions next week. If the company challenges our right to take further protected industrial action, then we’ll fight that in the FWC.
Either way, KDH are clearly not interested in a negotiated outcome so we’re going to have to ramp up actions over the next few weeks and force them to bargain in good faith.