The Pilbara Mineworkers Union heralds a new type of local and community-based unionism that could be a model for organising in other industries and locations, according to the author of a newly-launched book on the union.
The Howard Government will need to take a cautious approach to legislating IR change now it hads control of the Senate, or provoke a reaction from workers and unions, Freehills partner Philip Willox told the WA IR Society convention on the weekend.
What does the ideal workplace look like? AWU national secretary Bill Shorten outlined his view in a speech delivered to the WA IR Society conference on Saturday, while he also touched on union representation and demarcations in the State's Pilbara region.
Andrews to intervene in looming Wesfarmers case; Labor responds to Andrews'three bills; and UK to boost paid paternity leave to two weeks at 90% of workers' full pay packet.
The WA Government will consider a High Court challenge to any move by the Federal Government to use the corporations power to take over the State IR system and downgrade workers' employment rights, Employment Protection Minister John Kobelke said today.
The pay gap between men and women in WA is 50% higher than the national average, according to one of the authors of the eagerly-awaited gender pay equity review commissioned by the State Government.
The AMWU will remain demarked out of Forstaff's Avalon aircraft maintenance facility in Victoria until at least mid-2006, after a full bench of the AIRC this morning rejected its appeal on the matter.
The Federal Government will next month introduce new legislation to safeguard current enterprise agreements post-Electrolux, plus its bills exempting small business from unfair dismissal laws and from making redundancy payments, Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews announced this morning.
Workers at Pilkington's glass factory at Dandenong in Melbourne's east have voted up a new enterprise agreement that delivers a 12% pay increase over three years and locks in non-wage conditions for four years.
The ACTU has responded to Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews' sketch-map of the Howard Government's IR priorities with a warning that any reduction in the AIRC's role would be "incredibly short-sighted".
