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Protected industrial action at the Australian Rail Track Corporation is continuing ahead of workers voting on a management deal featuring annual pay rises of 2%, half the increase sought by unions.
The CPSU is looking to break the impasse over public sector bargaining with a new round of industrial action, led by a 24-hour strike next Thursday (August 12) at international airports.
Maurice Blackburn employees are voting on whether to take industrial action over protracted agreement negotiations, as the ASU alleges the legal firm withdrew from talks after telling it to "come back when you agree".
The QTU says a "trailblazing" deal that lifts Queensland's Catholic school teachers' top pay rate above $100,000 is the new benchmark in negotiations for government school teachers, who are now voting on whether to take industrial action.
The FWC is finalising an order to terminate the ETU's industrial action at Essential Energy after it found the planned 80-hour strike would endanger the life, the personal safety or health of the population.
Essential Energy is in the FWC seeking to suspend on safety grounds a planned 80-hour strike that starts across NSW tonight, while it has by-passed unions with a replacement agreement offer it is putting directly to its workforce.
The Fair Work Commission has suspended protected industrial action by CPSU members at international airports for 90 days, after finding that plans to escalate strikes posed a "serious and compelling" risk.
Stevedore Patrick says it will put its "final offer" direct to workers at its four container terminals, while warning that an employee lockout is possible if the bargaining deadlock continues.
The FWC has acceded to an urgent CPSU request to delay until Thursday a hearing into whether to extend an interim ban on industrial action at international airports.
