Microsoft says an Australian-first framework agreement with the ACTU sets a new standard for "responsible AI diffusion" across workplaces, protecting those working on AI and affected by it, while prioritising training for unions and employees.
The FWC is proposing to quickly insert a far broader delegates' rights term in modern awards, following a full Federal Court decision to quash the Commission's previous "impermissibly confined" term.
Following sustained pressure from disgruntled members, the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association and HACSU have withdrawn their merger plan.
The MEU says a full Federal Court's quashing today of FWC decisions inserting a delegates' rights term into modern awards emphatically confirms that the Closing Loopholes laws allow workplace delegates to represent workers on site regardless of labour hire or employment arrangements.
The WA IRC has thrown out a TWU bid to represent waste collectors at a Perth council after finding it would breach a demarcation agreement and ramp-up union rivalry, while noting it has been taking members' dues for nearly three years without telling them it could not represent them.
The scheme to temporarily bring low-skilled Pacific Island workers to Australia to build skills and send funds back to their families is being subverted, according to a new report that claims highly-trained workers are performing low-skilled roles, while hollowing out the ranks of skilled workers in their home countries.
At an extraordinary special general meeting today, Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association members have overwhelmingly voted against a planned amalgamation with HACSU, but it might not be enough to stop the merger.
Following on from its wins at Sydney and Melbourne independent bookstores, RAFFWU is leading strikes and work bans at Berkelouw Books and Harry Hartog, where it says workers remain on a small-cohort 2012 "zombie" agreement that the union says pays "poverty wages" and should never have been approved.
The author of a book tracing 150 years of campaigning for a shorter Australian working week says it offers crucial lessons for current efforts to win a four-day work week, cut unpaid overtime, and properly account for domestic labour, while AMWU national secretary Steve Murphy considers it part of a "just transition".
In an "industry-first", a newly-approved union agreement covering editorial employees at news publications including Crikey and The Mandarin explicitly prohibits AI from replacing human employees and requires all output to have human oversight.
