Directions hearings that were set down for today in Email's Federal Court bid to derail pattern bargaining at a corporate level have now been adjourned until December.
With the Olympics now consuming Sydney, the city's IR courts and tribunals have all sought to avoid logistical problems by listing urgent matters only.
Three days after the metal industry unions in Victoria withdrew about 52 Campaign 2000 protected bargaining notices that the AiG was seeking to suspend, they have initiated 12 of them again.
Three years since the eruption of one of the most bitter coal disputes of the last decade, unions at Rio Tinto's Hunter Valley No.1 mine in NSW are today holding report-back meetings with workers on a deal struck with the company earlier this week.
While maintenance unions at Godfrey Hirst in Geelong have seized on developments in the Federal Court yesterday as a blow to contracting out, the company maintains they're misrepresenting what is really happening.
A senior financial market employee who was offered one month's pay plus part of his previous year's bonus when made redundant - but then received nothing because he refused to sign a deed of release - has won a much bigger payout in the NSW IRC.
CFMEU National Secretary John Maitland told the protest meeting outside the World Economic Forum that unions would be continuing their worldwide campaign against Rio Tinto.
The Federal Court has refused to stop Ansett from again locking out 13 flight engineers, but has warned the airline that a further lockout attempt might leave it open to a breach of contract action.
