ABCC to appeal Federal Court decision on payment for industrial action; Noonan elected national secretary of CFMEU construction division; Worker loses one of first unfair dismissal cases decided under Work Choices; and AIRC releases fact sheet on how to apply for a dispute to be resolved.
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews has accused ACTU secretary Greg Combet of revealing that Labor's alternative IR policy would not require the majority support of employees for a collective agreement.
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.
