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Unions have won a Federal Court ruling which could discourage employers from taking common law action during protected bargaining periods

Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith and Conservative state governments are proposing a living wage increase of $8 up to C10 level ($447.20) in the metals award - a third of the $24 sought by the ACTU.

Trade union membership has continued its steady decline, with just one in every four employees now a member.

A Queensland company is appealing to the State's Court of Appeal to halt the first test of the Qld IR Act's controversial provisions to deem contractors as employees.

The IRC has refused the Postal Delivery Officers Union's application to register as an enterprise union.

In a new union strategy to boost recruitment, the fourth biggest job agency in the Federal Government's Job Network, Jobfutures, will earn a $25 fee from NSW unions every time it places an employee in a job and signs them up as a union member.

AMWU Victorian branch metals division secretary Craig Johnston remains determined to win an industry-wide settlement after the AIG's rejection of the MTFU's pattern bargaining claim.

Richard Marles' arrival on February 14 at the ACTU marks the beginning of a rapid changing of the guard at the union movement's peak council.

GST-linked "inflation clauses" are absent from all but one of seventeen Federal enterprise agreements covering 500 employees or more that were registered in the final quarter of 1999.

WR Minister Peter Reith's own department has negotiated an enterprise agreement that allows re-opening of the deal if the GST reduces real wages.