Deregulate the establishment and administration of registered unions and "let the red unions rip through the industrial relations system" to restore Australia's productivity and wealth, Red Unions Support Hub managing director Jack McGuire told the recent HR Nicholls Society national conference.
The AMOU has failed to persuade the FWC that a greenfields deal covering deck officers should be rejected because of a demarcation "side-deal" made with the AWU half a century ago.
The FWC has ruled that the MUA is not entitled to cover production operators at a West Australian saltworks because their duties are not tied closely enough to stevedoring, and refused to order the company to continue to include the union in bargaining.
The dedicated union for air traffic controllers has lost the first part of a demarcation dispute, after the FWC accepted that it and the TWU have overlapping coverage of Airservices Australia air traffic controllers.
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 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.
A nurse and one-time member of the ANMF Victorian branch council has this week learned his quest to topple the union's incumbent leadership fell flat, had his bid to establish a rival union knocked out, and failed to convince a FWC member to recuse herself from dealing with his bullying claim.
The NSW PSA has won a rule change to enable it to cover speed camera operators after it resolved an ASU objection via undertakings allowing either of them to ask the ACTU to help settle any demarcation disputes before heading to private arbitration.
Two HSU branches in Victoria are merging to form a "stronger union", but members of one are complaining that it is being undemocratically rushed through without consultation.
