The Finance Sector Union has struck a new enterprise agreement covering 4,500 to 5,000 employees at the NRMA, backtracking on the union's decision to refuse to sign any more enterprise agreements without a guaranteed minimum pay increase.
The AMWU election battle between officials aligned with national secretary Doug Cameron's camp and the Victorian-based Workers First faction has ended up in the Federal Court, with Workers First failing to convince Justice Donnell Ryan that orders were required to prevent Cameron and his allies using union resources in their campaign.
David Jones employees have won three days "personal business leave" from their sick leave allocation under a new federal enterprise agreement, in an attempt to cut unscheduled absences and give employees more flexibility.
NSW public sector employees whose work has been significantly changed by the 2000 Olympic Games have given the Carr Government a fortnight to respond to a claim for a $3 an hour loading during the event.
The CPSU is threatening a national campaign to rob Stellar Call Centres of Labor government contracts, after the union won NSW Labor Council support to push for such a change from the NSW Government and the ALP State Conference.
The NSW IRC is to hear the State Wage Case over two days from May 15, after the NSW Labor Council decided to seek a quick flow-on of the $15 federal safety net increase.
The ANZ bank has denied FSU allegations that it indirectly discriminated against women by targeting part-time employees when reducing working hours in its retail branch network.
The CPSU is flexing the considerable industrial muscle the looming GST-deadline has provided it to push for a better EA for tax employees, with the department's workers today voting in favour of implementing rolling bans from Tuesday on GST-related work.
