The Leighton Kumagai Joint Venture will pursue penalties and damages against the CFMEU, after winning a Supreme Court injunction stopping the union from encouraging further strike action on the underground section of the Perth-Mandurah railway project.
No Work Choices Regulations until second half of March; NAB deal certified before Work Choices kicks in; and Federal Court refuses claim for non-economic loss for sacked shop steward.
Australian unions seeking an alternative regime to the Work Choices Act should not settle only for new representation rights, but seek regulated access to industry-wide bargaining, according to a British academic expert.
The AWU has increased pressure on Qantas to reject plans to shift hundreds of maintenance jobs offshore, commissioning opinion polling showing 87% of Australians oppose the move.
The AMWU is considering appealing against the certification of one of the first agreements struck in the Campaign 2006 manufacturing industry bargaining round, maintaining that the employer - Robert Bosch (Australia) Pty Ltd - didn't follow proper process.
The AIRC has issued a confidential s127 order to end this week's lockout of 20 workers refusing AWAs at Teys Bros abattoir in South Australia, as the ALP signalled plans to restrict migrant labour unless local workers are available.
The CPSU and the Victorian Government have struck a new deal for the state's 28,000 public sector employees 19 months ahead of their old agreement expiring - a move prompted primarily by legal advice that last year's Federal Court Commsec decision threatened the enforceability of the 2004 deal.
Eldercare is the major source of work-life conflict for Canadian workers, and it's likely Australia will follow the same trend, according to one of North America's leading academic researchers on work and family.
Virgin Blue's 1000 ground services and call centre employees are to begin voting early next month on a new three-year deal, struck with the TWU, that delivers 3% annual pay rises, plus the chance of further increases via a gainsharing program.
Boeing has this afternoon won an order from the AIRC restraining the NSW IRC from dealing any further with its long-running Williamtown maintenance dispute.
