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Failing to respond to revised offer doesn't breach Act's requirements: FWA

The AMWU and AWU's failure to respond to an employer's revised wages offer made 48 hours before their secret ballot application was listed did not mean they not genuinely trying to reach an agreement, FWA has found. It has also held that the new bargaining regime did not require the unions to disclose the full content of the agreement they were seeking.

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