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CFMMEU mining division resumes demerger bid

The CFMMEU's mining and energy division today renews its attempt to clear the way for a demerger ballot to break away from the rest of the union.

Court clears way for UFU to revive Queensland branch

The UFU's national office has won court backing to "resuscitate" its Queensland branch after a precipitous membership decline and a subsequent mass resignation by officers and delegates in 2019.


Union logo "not misleading and deceptive": Ruling

The breakaway Victorian Ambulance Union has won the right to register its trademark after IP Australia rejected claims it will deceive people into thinking it is the UWU's ambulance section and that it is misleading to call itself a union as it is not registered under the RO Act.

Spurned AWU fails to sink rival's greenfields deal

Despite AWU objections, the FWC has approved an employer's greenfields civil construction deal with rival the CFMMEU, observing that the former's historic coverage of the sector did not guarantee a place at the negotiating table.


More blowback for repeat-offender union

A judge has walked the fine line between factoring in the CFMMEU's history of legal transgressions and imposing a sanction proportionate to the breach by adding $10,000 to penalties levied on the union after an official blew cigarette smoke in an ER coordinator's face.


Patrick, Qube took "desultory" approach to pursuing union: Court

The Federal Court has trimmed the amount of interest to be added to its $2 million-plus damages ruling against the MUA after finding that Patrick and Qube took a "desultory" approach to pursuing the union over unlawful bans at Port Botany in 2017.