The UFU has failed to convince the FWC that Fire Rescue Victoria used a procedurally unfair process when it suspended two workers, after Victoria's anti-corruption body found they accessed private work emails at Victorian branch secretary Peter Marshall's request.
The FWC has refused to approve a new deal for hamburger chain Grill'd despite 94% of employees voting it up, after finding some of its young workforce might not have understood they would be only 77 cents a week better off than under the award.
The Federal Court has refused to knock out an ETU claim that an employer fraudulently withheld information from the FWC when seeking approval for a new deal, allegedly concealing that the bulk of those voting had been engaged solely to take part in the ballot.
Wharfies have voted up what the MUA has hailed as the "best ever" agreement with Qube after an acrimonious campaign against the backdrop of the union's court case alleging the stevedore unlawfully deducted millions in "gap" payments from members' remuneration.
The SDA says Federal Labor's multi-employer agreement stream has opened the way for Chemist Warehouse's highly-feminised, award-dependent workforce to bargain collectively when they previously had "no realistic path".
Seven years after BHP started up its in-house labour hire provider Operations Services, it has finally won the support of its workforce for hotly-contested unilateral agreements to cover them, after a ballot that closed yesterday.
NSW nurses and midwives have voted up a three-year Ramsay Health agreement featuring a 16% pay rise and improved conditions, after the NSWNMA's longest-running campaign of industrial action.
Transgrid workers have won pay rises totalling 17.5% over three years after the FWC on Friday provided closure on a hard-fought campaign by making an intractable bargaining determination splitting the difference between employer and union proposals.
The FWC has refused to resolve a dispute about whether a remote locality allowance should be calculated on travel by road or "as the crow flies", but has determined, based on the parties' intentions, that a new Gladstone depot would not be covered by the allowance because it is "coastal" rather than remote.
Wharfies have near-unanimously voted up a "historic" Patrick Stevedores deal that provides pay rises of at least 10% over three years, a $2000 bonus and a super boost, eight months before the nominal expiry of the current agreement, and coinciding with the anniversary of the 1998 waterfront dispute.
