CFMEU :: Forestry Division

To Build, Strengthen and Maintain a Union that Protects and Improves the Quality of Life for Workers To achieve this vision we must: promote unity and collective action involve, encourage and empower members work for positive reform locally and internationally in enterprises, industry and society Organisational Objectives Develop the Union Reform and Improve the Industry Empower Workers and Improve Their Environment Protect and Improve Workers' Wages, Conditions and Rights Reform Society Develop the Union Through building flexible, democratic, and member focused structures that encourage empowerment developing the full potential of members and officials increasing membership through best practice unionism responding quickly and flexibly to the needs of members supporting and participating in the broad Union Movement agenda nationally and internationally Reform and Improve Industry by: increasing job security through promoting value adding, investment in an environmentally sound sustainable resource and generating political and community support developing and encouraging the implementation of workplace reform to enable industry to become world competitive facilitating the development of structures that enable workers to improve their skills and have them recognised Empower Workers and Improve Their Environment by: arranging for, promoting and encouraging workers to participate in vocational education and training ensuring workers have access to career paths and equal opportunities for all promoting access to broader educational opportunities for self improvement, political awareness and living skills to allow workers to reach their full potential ensuring workers have a say and an ability to impact on society including improvements for the community and environment, through collective action Protect and Improve Workers' Wages, Conditions and Rights by: ensuring that Australia has a viable and impartial industrial relations system that maintains awards, certified agreements and rights for workers and Unions achieving the maintenance and improvement of awards and enterprise agreements to improve wages and conditions striving to keep and improve enforceable OHS&W legislation to make and keep workplaces healthy and safe ensure that the Union Movement is able to operate effectively within the legal systems and that members have access to them Reform Society by: participating in and leading the broader labour movement nationally and internationally working through party political processes to reform the legal and social frameworks to create social equity promoting a fair distribution of the nation's wealth working towards removing barriers for marginalised and disadvantaged groups within society
Organisation Organisation means settling into a workplace network to effectively communicate face to face, one to one with every worker. Education Through the workplace network, we can educate each other through one to one comminication about issues that confront us and what we can do about them as a union. The union educates its members through workplace meetings, journals, news bulletins, training courses, industrial campaigns and organiser visits. Action Once members understand the issues, we can ask them to become actively involved in the collective activities to win challenges and improvements.