A full Federal Court ruled today that an employer wasn't entitled to include all casuals it had engaged in the previous year in the cohort that voted on its enterprise agreement.
The UK's Cameron Conservative Government has unveiled a higher hurdle for strikes and a new requirement for union members to "opt in" to payment of political levies, in what is billed as the most significant crackdown on unions since the Thatcher administration 30 years ago.
The AMWU has responded to the continued loss of Australian manufacturing jobs and falling union membership by making 11 officials redundant in Victoria and NSW over recent months.
Rail freight carrier Aurizon has won backing from employees for a new agreement covering about 1,500 construction and maintenance workers as it nears the end of a massive overhaul of its industrial agreements for its Queensland coal network.
CFMEU officials led negotiations with concrete companies to set uniform pay and conditions for commercial construction work in the ACT, the Heydon Royal Commissionheard today.
The FWC has found that issuing an entry permit to a CFMEU organiser containing a condition that he inform the tribunal within a fortnight of any penalties or adverse findings affecting his entry rights would be "akin to locking the stable gates after the horse has bolted", while a full bench has rejected an FWBC challenge to a permit issued with the same condition.
The site manager of a $30 million apartment construction project in Canberra called in the police after CFMEU officials began "freewheeling" around the site, the Heydon Royal Commission heard today.
