The NSW IRC has affirmed its ability to dictate the terms of a corrective Facebook post it forced the HSU to publish and has dismissed a claim that in heading off paramedics' industrial action, a senior tribunal member approached it on the basis that State IR laws don't "tolerate" it during conciliation.
The ASU says lawyers at Maurice Blackburn are pressing ahead with a ban on recording billable hours today despite being stood down, while members are "outraged" at its continuing refusal to provide more than four days reproductive leave despite publicly campaigning for ten.
A FWC full bench says it suspended industrial action afflicting Sydney's rail network partly to give the RTBU's leadership a chance to "re-establish a greater degree of control" amid suggestions some workers have been going rogue in pushing for a more radical approach.
Rail unions are urgently seeking renewed authorisation for festive season protected action at Sydney Trains and NSW Trains, after the Federal Court last night acceded to the employers' bid to temporarily declare unlawful bans to take effect this morning.
The FWC has ordered the UWU to stop "unlawful picketing" that is blocking access to four distribution centres that supply Woolworths, finding it has undermined the union's good faith bargaining obligations.
Ahead of a major threatened rail shutdown affecting Sydney and surrounding areas from Friday, NSW Transport Minister Jo Haylen has pledged not to repeat the former Coalition State Government's strategy of dragging the dispute before the FWC.
In what unions are calling a win for all Tasmanian workers, listed Canadian-owned food giant Saputo has after 20 weeks of industrial action agreed to a 21.7% pay rise for maintenance employees at its Burnie cheese plant.
The head contractor on Queensland's largest infrastructure project has failed to win FWC orders to compel hundreds of subcontractors to cross CFMEU picket lines, with the tribunal finding their no-shows did not amount to unprotected action.
In a significant ruling on what constitutes a "genuine" effort to reach agreement while bargaining, a FWC full bench has upheld a member's decision to grant a PABO to a union, despite it having met with the employer only once by the time its application came before the tribunal.
The CFMEU construction division's Queensland branch has suffered multiple setbacks in its bargaining stoush with the head contractor of the state's $7 billion Cross River Rail project, with workers voting up a new deal put directly by the company and the FWC separately issuing two orders stopping unprotected industrial action.
