Bargaining is a system whereby unions and their members negotiate on behalf of all employees to establish legally enforceable rights and entitlements, including salaries, paid leave such as parental leave, redundancy pay, limits on workloads, and hundreds of other entitlements. It is the enterprise agreement that determines most of your conditions and gives you your rights, contracts of employment generally don’t include any rights for workers. By law we are only allowed to negotiate employer by employer - we can’t negotiate on an industry level, and we are not allowed to negotiate conditions only for members.