The FWC has granted the Independent Education Union an additional 30 days to coordinate protected industrial action across more than 170 Queensland Catholic schools, after rejecting an employer proposal to limit the period to just 14 days following school holidays.
The CPSU is encouraging ATO employees to vote 'no' to a revised agreement offer, while federal public servants gear up for strikes next week in what the union says will be the sector's biggest wave of industrial action in 30 years.
Esso Australia has confirmed it is continuing daily lockouts of maintenance workers over stalled enterprise bargaining at its Bass Strait oil and gas operations.
The MUA is considering appealing a FWC ruling that blocked it from bargaining on behalf of a group of logistics employees involved in preparing containers for delivery to Broome Wharf because they didn't fit the description of "waterside worker".
The in-principle agreement covering workers employed by the head contractor for the massive Gorgon LNG project includes paid "bed busts", when their work stint is reduced due to a shortage of accommodation.
Unions have called off today's planned industrial action on Chevron's Gorgon LNG project after the CFMEU, AMWU and ETU reached an in-principle agreement with CB&I on a deal which they say will set a "new precedent" for FIFO rosters.
A full Federal Court has today dismissed a union appeal against an FWC decision that allows for agreements beyond their nominal expiry date to be terminated during the bargaining process.
An FWC decision to refuse an enterprise agreement because an employer incorrectly referred to the Fair Work Commission as "Fair Work Australia" has been quashed by a full bench.
Radiation therapy scientists transferred from Sydney's RPA Hospital to a new private not-for-profit cancer treatment centre have today reached an in-principle agreement after they rejected higher pay rises in favour of keeping public sector conditions for future employees.
