Join the ASU!


Joining the ASU is easy, just select your preferred option:

1. Join online via the secure site provided by the ASU's National Branch

2. Download a copy of our membership form

View ASU policies here
For information on joining in dispute read policy VASB-P002 Branch Membership

  If you're not an ASU Member, why join?

When you become a member of the ASU your voice becomes one with other workers. This serves to rectify the imbalance of power in the bargaining relationship between an employer and employee. In other words, you help tip the balance of power to your favour!

People join the ASU to have a voice in their workplace and industry and use this voice to protect and improve their rights by collectively acting as one. A union is only as strong as its members – the ASU could not deliver protection and improvements for members if it were not for active union members. Having an active workplace or industry means we are collectively stronger and so we can achieve better outcomes for individual members. That’s why the ASU aims to educate, organize and activate members to achieve beneficial outcomes – when members are empowered to solve industrial issues through active participation they can take control of their working lives.

ASU members have access to vast resources such as legal and industrial expertise; specialist advice; industrial advocacy at the workplace level and before appropriate tribunals as well as a growing range of Value added services such as home loans; taxation and financial advice; computer deals; ASU visa card; superannuation advice; women’s officer; shopping deals and a whole lot more! Union fees are tax deductible.

And the Facts…

Statistics show union members enjoy better pay and conditions than non-union members, earning more in pay and greater regularity in pay increases.