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Common wages, not wage increases, indicate pattern bargaining; Duration of industrial action required for secret ballot order
A full bench of the AIRC has said that pattern bargaining involves seeking common wages, not common wage increases, in a decision that also upholds an earlier finding that a union's willingness to be flexible on the incremental delivery of its 12% pay claim showed it was not pattern bargaining.
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