Campaign 2000 is intensifying on the ground and in the courts with MTFU shop stewards today endorsing a statewide 24-hour stoppage for later this month, and Email preparing a legal challenge to the unions' pattern bargaining strategy.
Victorian nurses will tomorrow morning begin lifting bans that have closed 1,300 public hospital beds, after voting this afternoon in favour of the IRC arbitrating their bargaining dispute.
The National Australia Bank, the next cab off the big bank bargaining rank after the CBA, has told the FSU it wants to negotiate a short-term agreement expiring in the middle of next year.
Some 450 workers at Esso's gas and oil production facilities in Gippsland and the Bass Strait are voting on a deal delivering a 13% increase over 30 months.
Joy Manufacturing will on Friday ask the IRC to terminate the enterprise agreement covering its Moss Vale site in NSW, with a weekend compulsory conference before the IRC failing to bring the parties any closer to resolving their four-month strike/lockout.