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.
Shadow IR minister Jane Hume has introduced a Bill that would enable the CFMEU's administrator to indefinitely expel members or disqualify union officers, and ensure they could not work for other unions.
RAFFWU is accusing new Victorian Premier Ben Carroll of rewarding his "political masters" at the SDA after his Government introduced legislation that will shut down the unregistered union.
A new analysis argues CFMEU corruption is a response to declining union power after the deregulation of IR and the shift to decentralised wage-setting.
Victoria's new Premier Ben Carroll has pledged to accept the recommendations of an IBAC report that finds the former Andrews Labor Government allowed UFU secretary Peter Marshall to exert "extraordinary influence" in negotiations for a controversial agreement.
The AMOU has failed to persuade the FWC that a greenfields deal covering deck officers should be rejected because of a demarcation "side-deal" made with the AWU half a century ago.
Mining giant Peabody has shelved plans for a third lockout of workers at its Wambo Coal Handling Preparation Plant after the MEU launched a legal challenge to the company's right to take the industrial action.
