The ACTU's alternative IR plan released today only requires majority support for collective agreements through a workplace ballot if employers refuse to negotiate, and clears the way for industrial action in pursuit of multi-employer and industry-wide agreements.
An AIRC full bench has overturned an order for a secret ballot, after finding the description of the proposed industrial action was too vague and meaningless and that the union was actively pursuing prohibited content in a common law deed.
The AiG has criticised Opposition Leader Kim Beazley's majority rules collective bargaining commitment as "perhaps the most backward-looking of all the workplace relations policies which the ALP has announced".
The AWU in Queensland has successfully transferred to the federal sphere a state-based exclusive coverage arrangement - in the process excluding the federally registered CFMEU.
ABC unions will on Thursday seek support from members for a campaign of industrial action if they don't get a satisfactory response to a letter they sent yesterday to the organisation's new managing director, Mark Scott.
Hydro Tasmania is facing the prospect of 24-hour stoppages and a range of bans that could affect its lucrative sales into the national power grid, if some 200 CEPU members vote up industrial action in a strike ballot that closes next week.
Employee creditors of Cowra Abattoir - the slaughterhouse at the centre of a public controversy over Work Choices' impact on corporate restructurings - today voted to send the business into liquidation after administrators found its director might have breached the corporations laws.
