Workers employed by one of the world's largest call centre companies, TeleTech, have threatened to walk off the job for 24 hours next week unless the company delivers what the union claims is thousands of dollars in unpaid wages.
A NSW IRC full bench will tomorrow hear a bid to stay interim orders that have prevented an employer organisation's members from offering s170LK federal non-union agreements.
The IRC is today hearing a bid by window manufacturer Stegbar, which is involved in a torrid bargaining dispute, to clear the way to pursue common law action against the AWU.
The CEPU will seek a pay rise of 4% a year over the next two years in its next bargaining round with Telstra, communications division secretary Colin Cooper confirmed today.
Royal Commissioner Terence Cole's ruling today rejecting the CFMEU's bias allegations defies logic, according to the union construction division's national secretary, John Sutton.
The RTBU is ramping up its campaign against private rail operator Pacific National after the company allegedly offered hundreds of white-collar workers a 14% pay rise as a trade-off for signing individual common law contracts.
The Federal Government has appointed industrial registrar Peter Richards and ACTU assistant secretary Bill Mansfield as IRC Commissioners, and will soon appoint a replacement for Vice President Tony McIntyre, who retired last month.
The Queensland Police Union has rejected a revised pay offer from the State Government and is opposing a bill that it says will strip police of their right to take industrial action.
