Long-serving Australian Federation of Air Pilots executive director and veteran of the landmark 1989 pilots' dispute Terry O'Connell died on Sunday after a short illness.
Undertakings not enough to get opt-out deals across the line; Three NSW industrial barristers take silk; and Services job losses accelerating, as unions call for action.
In a ruling that is likely to influence future wage arbitrations, an FWA full bench has awarded 150 Schweppes production and distribution workers a 11% wage increase in a two-year workplace determination, including 3% to compensate them for the period since the expiry of their last agreement.
The Fair Work Building & Construction Inspectorate has launched civil proceedings in the Federal Court against the CFMEU and ten officials alleging coercion over their demand that Grocon employ union-nominated shop stewards at its sites.
Thousands of NSW public servants have today defied IRC orders prohibiting a four-hour strike in protest against the O'Farrell Government's IR changes; while the ETU has blasted the NSW Premier's "bizarre claim" that amendments to the Fair Work regime are the key to lowering power costs.
The NSW Supreme Court has stopped two former OAMPS Gault Armstrong Pty Ltd insurance brokers from working for a direct competitor, pending a hearing on the enforceability of restraint of trade clauses in their employment contracts.
Adecco manager under unfair dismissal earnings threshold; Victorian disability services industrial action allowed to continue; and printing and graphics arts associations to merge.
The reign of CFMEU construction and general division WA branch assistant secretary Joe McDonald could be under threat, with long-serving organiser Mark Hudston mounting a challenge in next month's union election.
Telstra and communication unions are hopeful that a new, single enterprise agreement to cover the majority of the company's employees will be in operation by the end of October.
