Fair Work Australia has found the TWU has the right to represent security guards at Adelaide Airport, but the union has failed to prove it has the support of a majority of the workforce to initiate bargaining.
Controversial HSU national secretary Kathy Jackson called for reforms to union elections and governance in a speech last night to the HR Nicholls Society, in which she likened Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten to "Dracula in charge of the blood bank" when it came to devolving power from factional leaders.
Former Federal Court judge Michael Moore at midday became the interim administrator for the state-registered HSUeast and federally-registered HSU East branch, under an order by Justice Geoffrey Flick that also suspends all elected union officers from their positions.
The CFMEU's mining and energy division is likely to appeal FWA's approval of the Queensland Bulk Handling agreement, the latest in a series of deals containing opt-out clauses to be endorsed by the tribunal.
DEEWR has launched the dedicated resource sector "jobs board" that the federal government promised after the announcement of the first enterprise migration agreement for Hancock Prospecting's Roy Hill project.
Fast-growing construction and contract mining company Macmahon has in the past year developed an in-house labour supply strategy it says has provided 40% of its new employees at half the cost of previous arrangements.
A full court of the Federal Court has dismissed the AMIEU's bid to overturn a finding that it was reasonable for a company to require it to meet workers in a training room near managers' offices rather than in the lunchroom, which it preferred.
FWA has called on Toll Transport to explain why it didn't back up serious public allegations it made about the behaviour while in the US of a TWU official and three delegates - including that they were part of a Teamsters-led group, some wearing horror masks, that intimidated non-union employees - with disciplinary action against them.
