Qantas appears to have averted the threat of an international pilots' strike, with AIPA's committee of management today expected to endorse an in-principle deal, while the airline insists there is no "immediate risk" ground staff will take industrial action following a vote later this month.
The AEU is conducting a meeting this afternoon to consider a revised offer for Victorian public school teachers that includes a $2000 payment, plus an extra 1% annual lump sum for many, and an agreement-enshrined cap on face-to-face teaching hours.
The AEU says the State's public school teachers, principals and support workers will walk out for 24 hours on August 19 if the Carroll Government fails to put forward an "acceptable" revised bargaining offer.
Long haul Qantas pilots are about to vote on whether to back protected action for the first time since the airline grounded its fleet and locked out workers in 2011, as they seek improvements to a rejected offer and the Flying Kangaroo prepares to roll out its crucial Project Sunrise non-stop flights.
The FWC will tomorrow hear BHP's bid to break a bargaining deadlock at its crucial Port Hedland operations, ahead of unions staging an eight-hour strike on Thursday the miner claims could cost it more than $100 million. Update: This article has been updated to reflect the FWC bringing forward the conference to tomorrow.
A senior FWC member has affirmed that the statutory focus when considering whether "exceptional" circumstances exist to justify more notice for strikes is not on an employer's operations but on the proposed industrial action itself, rejecting Sydney's driverless train network's plea for extra warning.
AWU production operators have voted today to authorise industrial action, which will clear the way for port-wide strikes at BHP's Port Hedland operations, ahead of the next bargaining meeting tomorrow.
The FWC has confirmed an electrical contractor's pursuit of a multi-employer deal does not displace its obligation to negotiate a single enterprise agreement sought by the ETU, granting the union a PABO after finding the company breached good faith obligations.
NT Corrections has for the third time failed to halt prison officer strikes, with the FWC finding that the industrial action is protected and the UWU has complied with its assurances that it would protect the safety of prisoners.
Inpex is seeking FWC intervention to stop industrial action that it claims is threatening the national and NT economies, the LNG export industry and the health and safety of local gas customers.
