The WA Government has sought an order from the AIRC banning the education union from taking industrial action this term, after talks for a new teachers' deal broke down last week over issues including a 30% pay claim.
ABS industrial disputes data goes quarterly; Coles Myer deal certified after FOA undertakings; LHMU hopes ACT cleaning code to become national minimum standard; and Incumbent team faces challenge in CPSU election.
The turmoil over the construction of Australia Post's mail screening centre at Tullamarine isn't over yet, with major construction company McConnell Dowell entering the contest for the tender armed with a proposed s170LK agreement.
The CPSU has been shut out of Virgin Mobile's call centre and back office operations for two years, after the AIRC indicated it would make an enterprise award between the ASU and the company.
The Victorian secretary of the CFMEU (forestry division) plus three union organisers face having their right of entry permits revoked if an AIRC inquiry finds they used them improperly when serving inspection notices on 16 companies at the start of a bargaining period.
In an important procedural decision, the Federal Court has refused to give the Interim Building Taskforce access to documents it was seeking to prosecute the CFMEU (NSW branch), a delegate and an organiser.
In a novel decision, the AIRC has refused to grant a union right of entry to a workplace because all the employees were on AWAs, which completely displaced an award the union was relying on to gain entry.
The failure of coal mining unions to proceed with about half of the protected action they notified at a Queensland coal mine didn't amount to coercion, according to an interlocutory ruling by the Federal Court today.
