An unregistered union representing Sydney Airport workers has filed a majority support determination application to bring a contractor to the bargaining table, while negotiations are also underway with two other Kingsford Smith employers.
A FWC full bench has taken the extraordinary step of quashing a five-year-old decision that left thousands of BP employees uncovered by an enterprise agreement while the company remained unaware it had been terminated.
In echoes of the last round of contested negotiations, the FSU is urging Reserve Bank employees to reject a unilateral offer that it warns will prompt a "brain drain" to more lucrative public and private sector roles.
A Victorian public schools deal sold by the AEU to Victorian members as a " win for teachers" has been voted down, with the union set to decide today on its "next steps" and the Government accusing the union of being out of touch with its membership.
The FWC has ruled that the MUA is not entitled to cover production operators at a West Australian saltworks because their duties are not tied closely enough to stevedoring, and refused to order the company to continue to include the union in bargaining.
Industrial action has ceased at hydrocarbons producer Inpex after it reached an in-principle agreement with the Offshore Alliance containing what the unions claim are "great" pay rises they claim will set the standard for negotiations underway for a new Shell Prelude agreement, while they have credited the FWC's interest-based bargaining efforts with hastening a resolution.
NT Corrections has for the third time failed to halt prison officer strikes, with the FWC finding that the industrial action is protected and the UWU has complied with its assurances that it would protect the safety of prisoners.
The FWC has urged the operator of Melbourne's rail network to review its approach to s-xual harassment claims after a "troubling" finding that representatives from its HR department could not pinpoint who had carriage of a complaint and struggled to identify relevant policies and procedures.
Inpex is seeking FWC intervention to stop industrial action that it claims is threatening the national and NT economies, the LNG export industry and the health and safety of local gas customers.
Bargaining for a new host agreement and negotiating contracts with labour-hire companies does not justify a "lengthy" delay for same-job, same-pay orders, the FWC has ruled.
