The AWU in Queensland has successfully transferred to the federal sphere a state-based exclusive coverage arrangement - in the process excluding the federally registered CFMEU.
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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