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AEU wins secret ballot for ACT teachers

ACT teachers are set to take part in the biggest secret ballot yet on strike action under Work Choices, after the AIRC this afternoon granted the AEU's s451 application.

ABCC won't prosecute over DSTO site stoppage

The ABCC won't prosecute the CFMEU over an unauthorised stopwork meeting at a Hooker Cockram site in Melbourne and says the builder isn't obliged to deduct four hours pay from the workers, but would be justified in docking them for 20 minutes.

Separate secret strike ballot for single worker "an absolute joke": ETU

In what unions claim is another example of bureaucracy gone mad under Work Choices, the AIRC today ordered a separate secret ballot for industrial action for a single ETU member at a Victorian factory where the AMWU has already won a similar order covering other employees.

Regulation of permit ships now depends on High Court challenge

A full bench of the AIRC has put to an end the maritime unions' long-running bid to get up federal award coverage of permit ships with foreign crew. Any chance of having pay and conditions on these vessels regulated under Australian law now rests with the unions' High Court challenge to a Work Choices regulation.

Triangle Cables relies on 100-employee exemption

The company at the centre of a test case on the new unfair dismissal rules under Work Choices today hit back at union claims against its sacking of nine machine operators on the day after the Act's commencement, saying the workers had no recourse because it had fewer than 100 employees.

News in brief, May 22, 2006

Child care AWAs cut pay and conditions, says Opposition; Lawrence tipped as Workplace Rights Advocate; No duress when AWA offered, says Federal Court; Papers sought for labour law conference; and OWS not referring callers to state authorities, say state IR ministers.