The AMWU has after more than two years succeeded in gaining FWC approval to expand its eligibility rules so it can get a toehold in BHP's internal labour hire operation.
The AMWU claims in a bid to win coverage of extra classifications at a Queensland mineral field that the AWU has "ignored or failed" to properly service them and left it with the "full burden" of negotiating agreements on their behalf.
Long-serving Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association secretary Steve Purvinas says he has resigned to move on to "less stressful" pastures in the face of mounting opposition to his methods.
The FWC is set to convene an initial hearing next week into the CFMEU manufacturing division's application to demerge, using legislative provisions passed in July that gained new urgency after then construction division leader John Setka's threats to derail Australian Football League projects.
The WA IRC has made interim orders removing the recently reappointed leader of the ANMF's West Australian branch, Mark Olson, paving the way for the union council member who launched the challenge to take over his post.
A court has ordered long-serving Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association secretary Steve Purvinas to pay indemnity costs - expected to reach six figures - for his vexatious rules case that sought to wreak havoc against union executive members and embarrass and harass them.
The Federal Court this Friday will hear the HSU's urgent interlocutory application to put its Victorian No 1 branch into administration, after the union filed claims that branch leader Diana Asmar threatened to kill, sack and expose an employee who allegedly blew the whistle on her alleged misappropriation of funds.
The federal secretary of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers' Association, Steve Purvinas, has dropped his court case against members of his executive after they shelved moves to curtail his role.
The ASU and group of Victorian councils are lining up to oppose an attempt by the CFMEU's construction and general division Victorian branch to represent local government workers in enterprise bargai
