Tug operator Svitzer has moved to a single national agreement, after the FWC rejected objections from one of three unions that the company had unfairly selected the employees to be covered.
The Fair Work Commission, in a decision published today, says it suspended the MUA's protected industrial action at Patrick container terminals to allow further private negotiations to be assisted by presidential member Anna Booth.
The Fair Work Commission has today imposed a 35-day cooling-off period at Patrick's container terminals in four cities, halting strikes scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.
Stevedore Patrick will tomorrow ask the FWC to impose a cooling-off period to stop MUA members taking further industrial action at its container ports.
Public servants employed by 10 of the largest APS agencies will walk off the job tomorrow to protest what the CPSU says is the federal government's "strategic" hard-line approach to bargaining.
The SA Government has reached a "no strike" agreement with three unions to ensure industrial action is not an obstacle to building new submarines in Adelaide for the Australian Navy.
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.
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.
