The Fair Work Commission has detailed a 20-year-old strategy by Lion Nathan to remove union influence from its Tooheys site in Sydney, in a decision that found ten dismissed maintenance workers were legitimately employed by labour hire company FP Group Pty Ltd and not by the brewing giant.
With agreements covering vessel operators and labour hire providers in the critical offshore oil and gas sector expiring last week, AMMA has gone on the front foot in the public bargaining battle and released a report maintaining the MUA's claims for a new deal are unaffordable.
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The Federal Court has found that BHP Coal took unlawful adverse action when it sacked two CFMEU officials for allegedly harassing and bullying a mine worker who had resigned from the union, holding the claims against them weren't made out and the company's actions were "inexplicably harsh".
Fast food giant McDonald's Australia and the SDA have struck a four-year deal that delivers some 85,000 employees around the country average annual pay rises of between 3.5% and 4.5%, plus guaranteed rest breaks and domestic violence leave.
The Supreme Court has this afternoon extended injunctions against the MUA and its Victorian branch secretary Kevin Bracken preventing them from hindering access to and from Qube Ports' Station Pier site at Port Melbourne, finding there was a serious case to be tried that they had been involved in an unlawful picket.
The FWC has rejected ALAEA objections and approved an agreement between Qantas and the AWU, AMWU and CEPU that delivers 1200 aircraft maintenance workers pay rises above the airline's standard 3% annually via a revamped classification structure.
