ABC unions will on Thursday seek support from members for a campaign of industrial action if they don't get a satisfactory response to a letter they sent yesterday to the organisation's new managing director, Mark Scott.
Hydro Tasmania is facing the prospect of 24-hour stoppages and a range of bans that could affect its lucrative sales into the national power grid, if some 200 CEPU members vote up industrial action in a strike ballot that closes next week.
Employee creditors of Cowra Abattoir - the slaughterhouse at the centre of a public controversy over Work Choices' impact on corporate restructurings - today voted to send the business into liquidation after administrators found its director might have breached the corporations laws.
The ALP is developing an alternative IR policy that includes a "majority rules" right to collective agreements, supported by a good faith bargaining system enforceable by the AIRC, according to Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley.
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Using Pacific Islanders as guest workers in Australia would have negligible impact on the Pacific region, but could have high economic and social costs at home, a Centre for Independent Studies paper maintains.
An employer facing two unfair dismissal claims has failed to make out a "genuine operational reasons" argument, with the AIRC holding that "a mere assertion" that a termination is for operational reasons "is not sufficient".
