Long-serving RTBU NSW branch leader Alex Claassens is set to become national secretary following the resignation of Mark Diamond, whom the organisation credits with "transforming" it and resisting Coalition attempts to thwart the union movement.
The FWC has welcomed a new member "honoured" to have worked at a law firm founded in the 1940s by a Communist she considers herself lucky enough to have interviewed in his final years.
Former Opposition leader and IR minister, the late Simon Crean, and ex-ACTU secretary/government minister Greg Combet have been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours.
The ACTU's senior leadership team has today been re-elected unopposed, while unions have agreed to a 3% annual increase in their affiliation fees over the next three years.
The Albanese Government will appoint former FWC president Iain Ross to lead its Net Zero Economy Authority, which will play a core role in supporting workers in emissions-intensive industries transition to new jobs and acquire new skills.
A ceremony to welcome former employment and IR silk Craig Dowling as a Federal Court judge has heard his in-court performance has been likened to a cobra hypnotising a mouse, while barristers always wanted to work with him as he left "no stone unturned".
CFMEU national secretary Christy Cain has given notice that he will leave the role in June, paving the way for further leadership change at the militant union covering construction and maritime workers.
The Minns Government is seeking expressions of interest for a president and two deputy presidents to head up the State's soon-to-be re-established Industrial Court.
