As a new team prepares to take over the helm of the NTEU, the FWC has approved a rule change that will enable more members to vote in future elections, in a decision delayed by an administrative error and the union's request to postpone it to avoid irregularities.
After thwarting a HSU branch merger, VAHPA rank and file members are running a ticket in the first contested election in 14 years, but the incumbents say they look forward to putting their "record, vision, and leadership before the membership once again".
UWU national president Jo Schofield has launched her own election campaign, after secretary Tim Kennedy threw his support behind a rank and file member for president.
Following sustained pressure from disgruntled members, the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association and HACSU have withdrawn their merger plan.
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 newly-installed secretary of the ANMF's Victorian branch is facing the first contested election for the job in more than 30 years, as a rank-and-file team and a former council member who sought to register a rival union separately vie for multiple leadership posts.
After more than 30 years leading CPSU Victoria, Karen Batt appears to have been toppled by challenger Jiselle Hanna, in the first contested ballot in two decades.
The Federal Court has ousted HSU secretary Diana Asmar and has put her Victorian No 1 branch wholly in the hands of administrator Charlie Donnelly until a fresh leadership team is elected, as early as the middle of next year.
The FWC's registered organisations branch has certified rule changes for a prison officers' union stemming from an enforceable undertaking made after the CPSU-SPSF disclosed alleged misconduct in branch elections.
