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Auto unions are threatening industrial action if carmakers fail to settle a dispute over interpretation of an award clause for pay on public holidays.

The FSU has had its first success in a new two-pronged campaign to increase the regulation of casuals and labour hire employees in the finance industry.

Employers in the metals sector could see the stridency of the enterprise bargaining campaigns in Victoria extend to the rest of the country if the AMWU's militant Workers First faction is successful in toppling the union's national and Victorian leadership in upcoming elections.

Unions have won a Federal Court ruling which could discourage employers from taking common law action during protected bargaining periods

Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith and Conservative state governments are proposing a living wage increase of $8 up to C10 level ($447.20) in the metals award - a third of the $24 sought by the ACTU.

Trade union membership has continued its steady decline, with just one in every four employees now a member.

A Queensland company is appealing to the State's Court of Appeal to halt the first test of the Qld IR Act's controversial provisions to deem contractors as employees.

The IRC has refused the Postal Delivery Officers Union's application to register as an enterprise union.

In a new union strategy to boost recruitment, the fourth biggest job agency in the Federal Government's Job Network, Jobfutures, will earn a $25 fee from NSW unions every time it places an employee in a job and signs them up as a union member.

AMWU Victorian branch metals division secretary Craig Johnston remains determined to win an industry-wide settlement after the AIG's rejection of the MTFU's pattern bargaining claim.