Major iron ore mining company Fortescue Metals Group has confirmed today it will take third-party legal action in an attempt to block next week's planned 48-hour strike by MUA members crewing tugboats in Port Hedland.
BHP Billiton has stepped up pressure over a bargaining deadlock involving tug boat crews in Port Hedland, warning it is “actively pursuing” legal options to prevent industrial action.
The need for employers to consider the individual circumstances of employees taking industrial action before they institute disciplinary action has been demonstrated in a FWC finding that a company unfairly dismissed a crane driver who belatedly joined an unlawful stop-work meeting.
Growth in private sector rates of pay excluding bonuses has dropped to the lowest level since the ABS started collecting data for its Wage Price Index in 1997.
MUA members employed at Tidewater Marine have given notice of a 48-strike next week, as part of a crucial bargaining round in companies that service the offshore oil and gas sector.
The Heydon Royal Commission into union corruption has told the ACTU it intends to conduct a parallel policy process alongside its public hearings, but the peak body has indicated that it will object to any piecemeal approach and wants to see all draft recommendations before responding.
Thiess was justified in sacking an experienced mining truck driver who ignored alarms requiring immediate shutdown of her truck because she thought she needed to find the nearest safe place to stop.
Qantas has begun consulting the international pilots' union about its plans to offer voluntary redundancy packages to up to 100 Boeing 747 and 767 captains and first officers who will become surplus when the current fleet of these aircraft is retired by 2016.
The High Court will hear the CFMEU's challenge to a full Federal Court majority finding that BHP Coal didn't take adverse action when it sacked a worker for breaching its "good conduct" policy by waving a "scab" sign at a union picket line during a protected strike.
