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The AMWU and CEPU are considering a High Court appeal of this afternoon's AIRC full bench ruling which cleared the way for Fairfax, publishers of Melbourne's The Age newspaper, to make workers at the company's Spencer Street printing facility redundant.

Former magazine and newspaper editor and publisher Ita Buttrose told the AHRI conference today in Melbourne that the 40,000 childcare places rumoured to be offered in tomorrow's Budget fell well short of what was needed and urged working mothers to forget packaging a car in their salary - push for a nanny or mothercraft nurse instead, she urged.

The Victorian County Court will tomorrow hear a bid from former AMWU Victorian branch secretary Craig Johnston to have two criminal affray charges for alleged incidents at Johnson Tiles and Skilled Engineering inmid-2001 reduced to unlawful assembly charges, while the court heardtoday that Johnston would plead guilty to other criminal charges.

A car wash operator has been fined $3000 by the Federal Court for its "despicable" conduct in dismissing a worker for his intellectual disability, and the AIRC has ruled that the sacking of a Telstra "000" operator for failing to adhere to policies and procedures was fair despite her 26 years of service.

Supporters of former AMWU Victorian branch secretary, Craig Johnston, are planning a rally outside Victoria's County Court on Monday morning, where he is due to stand trial for his role in the Skilled Engineering raids in 2001.

The Federal Court of Australia has dismissed an appeal by an Australian Federal Police officer who claimed she was discriminated against when a review panel failed to take her depressive condition into account when considering her reinstatement.

The AIRC has dismissed a range of privacy and other concerns advanced by the ANZ and granted the FSU the right to a "walkthrough" of the bank's offices to investigate suspected time and wages breaches.

In more fall-out from the latest Telstra bargaining round, the secretary of the CEPU's NSW postal and telecommunications branch, Jim Metcher, is seeking to have the union's national vice-president, Colin Cooper, investigated under union rules for his role in a dispute over when the telco giant's employees get their pay rises.

ACTU president Sharan Burrow yesterday described it as the "labour partnership back in town", as the union body's executive met in Sydney yesterday with Opposition Leader Mark Latham ahead of next week's federal budget and with the federal election looming.

In the first prosecution of its type in NSW, a company and its directors have been fined $26,000 for failing to ensure a workplace was free from bullying.