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.
The ASU will today seek a 35% work value pay rise for 300,000 SCHADS award-covered community and disability workers, following a two-year pause after the FWC refused to integrate it within the tribunal's broader gender-based undervaluation case.
A CFMEU construction division official once deemed remorseless for multiple breaches and who is currently defending two court cases has won a new entry permit, with administrator Michael Crosby telling the FWC that past leaders "continually" let the organiser down.
Extra time for Wood inquiry into CFMEU; Gender undervaluation boost now in October; Migrant Workers Centre launched in NSW; and FWC Bulletin final edition.
The CFMEU's South Australian construction and general division branch has today broken away from its Victorian counterpart, newly-installed administrator Michael Crosby describing it as a "very important moment" after two "turbulent" years following revelations about the union's misdeeds.
A proposed new deal for BHP iron ore mineworkers in Western Australia has split union opinion, the AWU and MEU describing it as a "significant improvement" on the resources titan's previous offer, but the ETU calling it "an insult to the workforce".
Union renewal expert Michael Crosby will start today as the CFMEU construction and general division's new administrator, FWC general manager Murray Furlong announced this morning.
One of the CFMEU's most controversial officials has had his state entry permit revoked, after an IR tribunal full bench used new laws to revisit his lengthy criminal history and consider threats last year to "rip out the heart" of a sub-contractor's representative.
