Left-wing think tank the Australia Institute has launched a new centre that will research and publish on the workplace and labour markets, overseen by an economist who has advised Canada’s auto union for the past two decades.
The NUW and MEAA are among the first unions to change their rules to accept no or low-fee community and associate members since the ACTU's call to transform their membership models by adopting "radical thinking".
A union proposal for the Fair Work Commission to set a medium-term target for the national minimum wage will be considered in deliberations for next year's minimum wage ruling.
Fortescue Metals Group has failed in a bid to block the CEPU from seeking a declaration that it unduly delayed entry to its WA branch secretary after a 2013 workplace fatality, with a court finding WA's non-harmonised OHS laws are no barrier to entering sites under the Fair Work Act.
The Fair Work Commission has this afternoon granted award-reliant workers a 2.4% increase, lifting the national minimum wage by $15.80 a week or 41 cents an hour, in this year's annual wage review ruling.
The CFMEU construction and general division's NSW branch has announced a green ban on a proposed $38 million redevelopment of the Bondi Pavilion in what it says is a bid to maintain it as a publicly-owned community facility.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has found today that the Coles Supermarkets agreement, which covers about 77,000 workers, failed the Better Off Overall Test, but has given the retailer the chance to offer undertakings.
An FWC full bench has overturned a ruling that restricted CFMEU construction and general division officials from exercising their entry rights in three states and the NT.
