The CFMMEU is under internal attack for the second time in two days, with the manufacturing division applying today to hold a vote on going it alone, after the mining and energy division renewed its own demerger bid yesterday.
The ACCC has secured a maximum $750,000 fine against the CFMMEU for breaching competition laws when it pressured a major construction company to boycott a non-union subcontractor.
A tribunal has thrown out a supermarket worker's discrimination case against the SDA, finding it an abuse of process and a relitigation of a matter that first surfaced in 2017.
A court has found that a union's head office is prevented by its own rules from hearing accusations of "gross misbehaviour" brought against a State divisional leader.
A court has fined a CFMMEU official almost $9000, but has attached little weight to "remedial" training he undertook after the ABCC charged him with preventing a concrete pour, saying it should not be necessary for someone in his role.
A judge has in slugging a CFMMEU organiser with a $12,500 personal fine speculated that counsel for the ABCC may have led a "sheltered" existence in not appreciating that the official had aimed a "quite disgusting" homophobic slur at a project's safety adviser.
An ACTU call centre worker whose Facebook posts cheered on vaccine mandate protesters who kicked in a union headquarter's windows, applauded attacks against police, mocked domestic violence and disparaged black and transgender people has failed to budge a finding that it rightly sacked him.
The CFMMEU has failed to kick out a key plank of BHP's internal labour hire operation after the FWC found that it did not dismiss 17 Hunter Valley mineworkers who declined to relocate interstate.
A lawyer overseeing a merger of the TWU and the Virgin pilots' union says a FWC finding that they are not amalgamating opens the way to a faster and more cost-effective process and might have implications for other unions with similar eligibility criteria.
The TWU has vowed to fight for a substantial compensation package for almost 2000 former ground handlers and Qantas says it will appeal after a full court upheld a finding it took adverse action by outsourcing their roles, but refused to order reinstatement.
