One of the CFMEU's most controversial officials has had his state entry permit revoked, after an IR tribunal full bench used new laws to revisit his lengthy criminal history and consider threats last year to "rip out the heart" of a sub-contractor's representative.
The FWC has castigated a union delegate for abusing its anti-bullying processes to "settle personal scores" with managers, branding it "completely inappropriate".
A full Federal Court has opened the door for two state ambulance enterprise unions to win registration, by quashing two FWC rulings that found the unions could not seek federal endorsement.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has launched a new action against former HSU leader Diana Asmar, pushing for her to be banned from holding union positions because she allegedly took reprisal action against "several individuals" who made protected disclosures about the union's governance and financial management.
A NSW IRC full bench will on Thursday decide public sector nurses' special case bid for a 35% pay rise, while the state union's employees will get a 5% increase and a one-off "cost of living allowance" under a proposed agreement variation.
Three UWU organisers accused of running a "shadow campaign" over bargaining have withdrawn their unfair dismissal claims after reaching financial settlements with the union.
The FWC has approved a CFMEU-brokered enterprise agreement despite finding the union had no eligibility to represent the industrial interests of workers covered by the deal and no authority to negotiate it.
The FWC has ruled that a former CFMEU organiser is a fit and proper person to work for another union despite her "spur of the moment" decision to confront an investigative journalist that resulted in her dismissal.
The FWC is proposing to quickly insert a far broader delegates' rights term in modern awards, following a full Federal Court decision to quash the Commission's previous "impermissibly confined" term.
The WA IRC has thrown out a TWU bid to represent waste collectors at a Perth council after finding it would breach a demarcation agreement and ramp-up union rivalry, while noting it has been taking members' dues for nearly three years without telling them it could not represent them.
