Trevor Smith resigns as CFMEU national president; Name change for NSW Labor Council; Work and family test case expected to wind-up mid-December; and Electrolux deal derailed by Electrolux decision.
The CFMEU (mining & energy division) will continue to prosecute individual mine managers and coal companies for health and safety breaches when government departments fail to do so, with delegates to the union's four-yearly national conference this week unanimously endorsing the approach.
The CFMEU (mining & energy division) has won a dispute finding with three more coal industry contractors, with the AIRC rejecting arguments that the union was ineligible to represent the companies' employees.
The Federal Government will use its Senate majority to target the construction industry, announcing today that it will re-introduce its rejected Cole-based legislation into Parliament next year.
AIRC President issues statement on Merkon matters pertaining case; AWAs have record month; and Corporate boys club driving women into small business, says new study.
A senior AIRC member has found that agreements can be certified if they contain arrangements for salary sacrifice into super but not if they require payment of site rates to labour hire employees, in a new ruling on the vexed issue of matters pertaining.
Qantas and its long haul flight attendants have avoided a disruptive industrial campaign over the peak Christmas-New Year period, after striking a new three-year enterprise agreement that allows the new London base to proceed and gives the 3,800 employees a 3% annual pay increase.
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.
