The TWU says it has "ambitious plans" for a planned merger with the Virgin pilots union, expanding its longstanding industrial clout in the aviation sector "above and below the wing".
The NTEU has urged its members to change passwords for their credit cards and online bank accounts after a ransomware attack on the union on Tuesday evening.
The CFMMEU's mining and energy division has launched two-pronged legal action in the Federal Court, seeking to overturn the broader union's recent rule changes and to secure an inquiry into the election of former MUA WA branch leader Christy Cain as national secretary.
Two former long-serving employees of Queensland-based union Together have lodged fresh privacy complaints about alleged employee records breaches with the federal privacy watchdog against the union and its top three elected officers, including one who has nominated to replace the outgoing ALP state secretary.
The AWU has admitted to more than 24,000 historic contraventions of registered organisations' obligations to report their membership numbers, a Senate Estimates committee has heard.
CFMMEU mining and energy division Queensland district president Stephen Smyth has denied allegations that he misused his union credit card, maintaining that he repaid some items while others were legitimate work-related expenses.
The Federal Court has refused to grant an injunction against the RTBU's national executive hearing charges brought under the union rules of alleged "gross misbehaviour" by a Victorian-based official.
Protected disclosures have prompted the ROC to probe whether a former AEU ACT branch leader improperly used his position, while it has also launched an investigation into the HSU Victorian No 1 branch's financial affairs that the union has derided as "politically motivated".
The ROC has wound up its three-year investigation of the AWU's historical $264,000 in donations that led to the infamous raid on the union's Melbourne and Sydney headquarters, finding the union breached registered organisations laws when it failed to authorise any of the 20 donations under the spotlight, but has decided against taking any further action against individuals or the union.
