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.
The FWBC has launched a Federal Court prosecution of a head contractor it accuses of repeatedly discriminating against a crane operator because it wasn't party to a union enterprise agreement.
Qantas has called in cyber security experts after a "perceived compromise of the voting process" in an electronic ballot for a long-haul pilots' agreement.
The ACTU's national executive today passed a resolution calling for a public registry of labour hire companies and a "rigorous" national licensing regime.
The CFMEU's construction and general division has called for the Heydon Royal Commission to refer bribery allegations involving the union's ACT branch to the police, and for all parties involved in the payments to be prosecuted.
