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.
The ETU has accused BHP of putting forward a "baseline" agreement for the Pilbara's South Flank and Area C mines in an attempt to undermine the same-job, same-pay framework before on-hire workers "can even use it".
Unions have today sought authorisation to strike at BHP's iron ore export operations at Port Hedland, after claiming to have been "stonewalled" during bargaining for new deals.
Fortescue is seeking to strike back against union efforts to force it into bargaining, launching court action that has now sparked a counter-suit from the AWU and ETU, seeking orders to compel it to kickstart the process by issuing a bargaining notice.
Queensland Rail says "the public has lost" after it and the Crisafulli Government again failed to stop industrial action hitting trains through to the end of June, despite the FWC accepting it will affect this weekend's NRL Magic Round and might pose safety risks.
Queensland's Crisafulli Government is again seeking FWC intervention to stop industrial action affecting the rail network, ahead of the State hosting the NRL Magic Round and the tribunal kicking off a series of intensive negotiations this week.
Unions say 100% of their Inpex members have voted in favour of taking protected industrial action, weeks after they rejected the company's unilateral offer.
The first lawful industrial action in more than 30 years in the Pilbara will begin next week, with ETU members on a crucial BHP power network launching work bans.
A senior FWC member has unflatteringly compared a past NSW government's successful application to avert rail strikes with the sparse evidence provided by the Crisafulli Government in last week's failed bid to suspend similar industrial action in Queensland.
The prospect of the first lawful strikes in more than 25 years at BHP's Iron Ore mines has moved closer, after ETU members on a crucial Pilbara power network voted up a protected action ballot.
