In an indication that the Qantas group didn't abandon its hardline IR approach with the departure of Alan Joyce, its low-cost subsidiary is threatening to put a unilateral deal to its ASU-covered customer service workforce as it votes on industrial action to coincide with school holidays and the AFL and NRL finals series.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has started an investigation into whether John Setka, the former Victorian branch secretary of the under-administration CFMEU construction and general division, has flouted stringent "anti-avoidance" provisions that might lead to imprisonment by making threats against those now running the union.
The Federal Court has pushed FWC general manager Murray Furlong's prosecution of Diana Asmar back to next month and asked to her to provide a neurologist's report to ascertain whether she "is capable of managing her own affairs in the proceeding".
The nursing union's NSW branch is facing its first contested election in 23 years, with a rank-and-file member and former organiser launching the "Time for Handover" ticket and going up against an incumbent team.
A meat union delegate who has had hundreds of thousands of dollars in employer penalties paid into his union's coffers has added almost $90,000 more to his tally, this time from Woolworths.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has refused to stay the deregistration of one auditor and suspension of another found to fallen short in their duties to an embattled HSU branch, concluding that no weight should be given to their "desire for reputational repair" while their appeals are heard.
The Victorian lower house has passed legislation targeting unregistered unions, after RAFFWU, the Greens and the Liberal Party accused Labor of factional favours and of undermining freedom of association, while the State's workplace protection legislation has passed Parliament.
The FWC has temporarily increased the vehicle-related allowances in the SCHADS and aged care awards to compensate workers for the fuel price surge from the Middle East conflict, but has declined to make the change in 39 other awards.
After its CFMEU raid today, Victoria Police has revealed that its investigation relates to drug trafficking in addition to the "secret commissions" or "kickbacks", and has charged two of the five men it arrested.
The ACTU has stopped conducting a survey of union officials on their inflation expectations that it previously provided to the RBA, because of its influence on the central bank's interest rates decisions, but says it is committed to developing a better methodology.
