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.
The ACTU's senior leadership team has today been re-elected unopposed, while unions have agreed to a 3% annual increase in their affiliation fees over the next three years.
The Mining and Energy Union's 18-member national governing body will have two positions reserved for women – up from one – after the FWC accepted "persuasive" evidence that it would make the union's leadership more representative.
The first enforceable undertaking under the FWC's restored registered organisations powers provides for a union to further train its officers on the conduct of elections.
The process of obtaining an entry permit should be "no more than onerous" than that for a passport unless there are "good grounds" for suspecting the applicant might not be a fit and proper person, according to the Booth-Hamberger review of regulation of registered organisations.
The Federal Court has today ordered an inquiry in December into this year's election for the AMWU NSW branch assistant secretary, after it last week accepted that a text message in support of the incumbent's campaign might have favoured her.
The Federal Court will in October consider whether it has reasonable grounds to start an inquiry into a recent AMWU election, at the urging of an organiser who narrowly missed out on replacing the NSW branch's assistant secretary.
