Negotiations over a new agreement for 600 manufacturing workers at Bridgestone have stalled, while maintenance employees at the company have struck their first ever non-union deal.
The AIRC has allowed a herbal medicine company to vary its s170LK agreement to help it survive a downturn in business, even though the changes would result in several workers taking a pay cut.
Labour market deregulation is one of seven major reforms in the past 20 years that have been crucial to Australia's recent economic stability, Reserve Bank Governor Ian Macfarlane told a Business Council of Australia Dinner last night.
A rank and file team has taken over the leadership of the CEPU communications division's Victorian postal and telecommunications branch, while the division's national and NSW leadership has been returned.
In a blow to the AMWU's push for entitlements to be protected in the NEST trust fund, the AWU has struck a deal for ACI Glass Packaging Australia that provides for annual audits of the company's financial health.
The AIRC has found a clause requiring that contractors and subcontractors be paid site rates rendered an agreement non-certifiable, but has accepted a union membership at point of recruitment clause after receiving assurances about how it would be used.
A comparative study of agreements in NSW under the bargaining regimes of the Greiner-Fahey Coalition and Carr Labor governments shows a big rise in union deals, specified pay increases and family-friendly provisions under Carr.
More than 3,000 employees at the Australian Bureau of Statistics have won improved flexibility and a raft of family-friendly arrangements under a new non-union deal certified last week.
