The shut-down calendar continues to be the main sticking point in the Queensland construction industry bargaining round, where the building unions are by-passing the MBA and pursuing major subcontractors and some builders first up.
The AIRC has this afternoon issued a s127 order to halt a wildcat strike by Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald journalists in Sydney, and to stop journalists at The Age from joining the stoppage.
The ACTU is set to limit its national award wage case application in line with the Work Choices legislation, leaving arbitrated pay rises for up to two million workers directly in the hands of the state industrial commissions.
State governments should legislate to protect workers and unions against common law damages for industrial action, industrial barrister Steve Crawshaw SC told a recent forum.
The Work Choices legislation shows that Prime Minister John Howard has failed to fulfil his 1983 promise to turn HB Higgins "on his head" and that he continues to accept the Marxist dogmas that inspired the labour movement in the late 19th Century, according to HR Nicholls Society president, Ray Evans.
Alcoa's policy of taking strong disciplinary action against employees who breach safe work standards has been upheld by the AIRC, but it has recommended the company moderate the punishment.
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Imposing a record $25,000 penalty on the AMWU last month for contravening the Workplace Relations Act was justified because the union had four previous contraventions and needed to be deterred from further transgressions, according to reasons for decision released by the Federal Court today.
