Workers are considering protected strikes over deadlocked bargaining at CUB's main Melbourne brewery, in a dispute that is complicated by tensions over coverage between United Voice and the CFMEU.
An employer has failed in a challenge to the validity of a protected action ballot that extended the voting period by 10 days, with the FWC finding the error was a "technical breach" that did not affect the result.
The state-owned company that runs the electricity "poles and wires" network supplying Sydney, the NSW Central Coast and the Hunter region has announced a first round of 550 job cuts, which are being hotly opposed by the ETU.
The CPSU is encouraging ATO employees to vote 'no' to a revised agreement offer, while federal public servants gear up for strikes next week in what the union says will be the sector's biggest wave of industrial action in 30 years.
Esso Australia has confirmed it is continuing daily lockouts of maintenance workers over stalled enterprise bargaining at its Bass Strait oil and gas operations.
Boral Resources has suffered a setback in its push to win more than $20 million in damages from the CFMEU, with the company ordered to pay the union's "substantial" legal costs after its civil trial was adjourned today for six weeks.
The FWC has refused a request by Boral CSR Bricks for an order to stop the CFMEU and AMWU taking industrial action over the company's plan to issue a disciplinary warning to a worker at its Victorian brickworks.
Unions have called off today's planned industrial action on Chevron's Gorgon LNG project after the CFMEU, AMWU and ETU reached an in-principle agreement with CB&I on a deal which they say will set a "new precedent" for FIFO rosters.
Unions have given notice of a protected 24-hour strike at Chevron's Gorgon LNG project this Friday, followed by shorter stoppages over two days next week.
