More than 100 days after NUW members walked off the job, the three other onsite unions at Qeno'’ Altona manufacturing site have still not signed an enterprise agreement that their members voted up, and the bargaining dispute remains before both the IRC and the Federal Court.
Queensland's largest casino - Conrad Jupiters on the Gold Coast - has denied threatening to lock its gaming workers out over badges they are wearing supporting an enterprise agreement.
A worker sacked by controversial meatworks G&K O'Connor has won the right to an unfair dismissal hearing after the IRC accepted that he didn’t sign his AWA - which stipulated a probationary period - until after he'd started work and he wasn't made aware during his interview that he was on probation.
A retrenched state manager has failed to win a redundancy payment that was contingent on him becoming a consultant to his employer, after the WA IRC found he breached his common law fiduciary duty when he reneged on the deal and joined a competitor.
The GST inflation spike has disappeared from the latest quarterly CPI, with ABS data released today showing an increase in prices of just 0.3% for the December quarter and 5.8% for the year.
The CFMEU has won back its representation rights at Rio Tinto subsidiary Comalco's Weipa mine, almost a decade after the company and the AWU convinced the IRC to remove them.
The IRC has given the licenced aircraft engineers' union exclusive coverage of workers at a Qantas site, after finding an AMWU campaign against the airline's labour supplier, Forstaff, cost the company $15m a year in lost business.
The ACTU's blueprint for union renewal, unions@work, has been the catalyst for the CPSU to introduce internal reforms to arrest its declining membership.
