The turmoil over the construction of Australia Post's mail screening centre at Tullamarine isn't over yet, with major construction company McConnell Dowell entering the contest for the tender armed with a proposed s170LK agreement.
The CPSU has been shut out of Virgin Mobile's call centre and back office operations for two years, after the AIRC indicated it would make an enterprise award between the ASU and the company.
The Victorian secretary of the CFMEU (forestry division) plus three union organisers face having their right of entry permits revoked if an AIRC inquiry finds they used them improperly when serving inspection notices on 16 companies at the start of a bargaining period.
In an important procedural decision, the Federal Court has refused to give the Interim Building Taskforce access to documents it was seeking to prosecute the CFMEU (NSW branch), a delegate and an organiser.
In a novel decision, the AIRC has refused to grant a union right of entry to a workplace because all the employees were on AWAs, which completely displaced an award the union was relying on to gain entry.
The failure of coal mining unions to proceed with about half of the protected action they notified at a Queensland coal mine didn't amount to coercion, according to an interlocutory ruling by the Federal Court today.
After 226 days on the grass, workers employed at Smorgon Steel by two labour hire companies will return to work tomorrow and seek a s170MX arbitrated award, after the AIRC ended their bargaining periods today.
A firefighter sacked for a serious safety breach has won his unfair dismissal claim after the AIRC found that his employer's policy on dealing with fuel spills was "poorly worded".
The AIRC has this morning refused to issue s127 orders to halt stopworks in construction that began in Melbourne today, but has directed unions to tell members to return to work afterwards.
