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 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.
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.
The oil and gas giant Chevron is braced for legally protected strikes at its $US54 billion Gorgon LNG project in Western Australia as construction workers seek "family friendly" fly-in, fly-out rosters.
The RTBU has called off a planned four-hour strike on Melbourne's passenger trains this Friday along with two "free travel" days this week, to allow for further negotiations starting this morning.
Four unions today started protected industrial action at the Melbourne-based plasma and vaccines manufacturer CSL Ltd, on the same day it announced a $US1.4 billion net profit.
The Fair Work Commission has approved a protected action ballot at the Gorgon LNG project's biggest contractor, CB&I, raising the possibility of protected strikes as the already delayed project nears completion.
CPSU members in 17 APS agencies are set to begin a campaign of rolling four-hour stoppages next month, as the union seeks to pressure the federal government to increase its sub-inflation pay offers.
The Federal Court has reserved its decision in a case in which Esso Australia argues that members of the AWU took unprotected industrial action, which cut its oil and gas production in Bass Strait in March and April.
