Browsing: Remedies for bargaining deadlocks (250 items)


FWC convening FSU-RBA negotiation today

A bargaining dispute between the FSU and the Reserve Bank heads to the FWC today, as the union seeks to head off a second-round offer it believes will be unchanged from an original proposal voted down in July.


"All aboard" call as rail dispute "resolved"

The FWC has declared the long-running Queensland Rail dispute resolved following a "substantial" and "intensive" undertaking, while strongly urging workers vote to accept seven in-principle deals rather than holding out for an intractable bargaining process.


Ex-VECCI chief sues AFL club; & more

Guerra sues Melbourne Football Club; Bench upholds child-killer's partner's reinstatement; and Teachers win interim 3% pay rise.


Difficult road ahead for bus talks: FWC

The FWC has expressed "little hope" a Victorian bus operator, the TWU and an unregistered union will strike a deal within a two-week negotiating period before heading to a full bench for an intractable bargaining workplace determination, following a string of failed ballots and a "reversion" to earlier or entrenched positions.


Prospect of first Qantas pilots' strike in 15 years

Long haul Qantas pilots are about to vote on whether to back protected action for the first time since the airline grounded its fleet and locked out workers in 2011, as they seek improvements to a rejected offer and the Flying Kangaroo prepares to roll out its crucial Project Sunrise non-stop flights.


FWC to help broker BHP-union peace deal

The FWC will tomorrow hear BHP's bid to break a bargaining deadlock at its crucial Port Hedland operations, ahead of unions staging an eight-hour strike on Thursday the miner claims could cost it more than $100 million. Update: This article has been updated to reflect the FWC bringing forward the conference to tomorrow.


BHP ports deal would be "game changer": Academic

If BHP workers striking in Port Hedland next week can secure a union agreement, it would challenge the IR model that has endured in the Pilbara for more than 30 years, an IR researcher says.


ETU win stymies employer multi-deal push

The FWC has confirmed an electrical contractor's pursuit of a multi-employer deal does not displace its obligation to negotiate a single enterprise agreement sought by the ETU, granting the union a PABO after finding the company breached good faith obligations.


Deal ends industrial strife at Inpex

Industrial action has ceased at hydrocarbons producer Inpex after it reached an in-principle agreement with the Offshore Alliance containing what the unions claim are "great" pay rises they claim will set the standard for negotiations underway for a new Shell Prelude agreement, while they have credited the FWC's interest-based bargaining efforts with hastening a resolution.


BHP's export hub facing crippling strikes

Unions have today sought authorisation to strike at BHP's iron ore export operations at Port Hedland, after claiming to have been "stonewalled" during bargaining for new deals.


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