The Victorian Government has now turned its attention to ending industrial action by public servants, seeking an order from Fair Work Australia to suspend or terminate protected industrial action.
Fair Work Australia will tomorrow morning resume hearing an urgent bid by the Victorian Government to halt industrial action by public hospital nurses, after they defied a suspension order.
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The ANF is adopting a "risky industrial tactic" in not advising its members in Victorian public hospitals to lift their bans after Fair Work Australia last night suspended all industrial action to be suspended for 90 days.
The ANF's industrial action in public hospitals has not endangered the health, safety or welfare of any Victorian patient, so the State Government has failed to meet the requirements of the s424 termination of industrial action provisions, the union this afternoon told Fair Work Australia.
The AiG is to mount a Federal Court challenge to Fair Work Australia's full bench ruling last month upholding the lawfulness of three clauses in the Victorian electrical contracting industry's pattern agreement that the employer group had sought to strike out.
The ANF this morning at the hearing to consider terminating industrial action by its members at Victorian public hospitals offered to lift all bans today and enter into consent arbitration if the State Government agreed.
The CFMEU (mining & energy division) has successfully challenged a move by BHP Coal to introduce new start and finish times at one of its Bowen Basin mines, while industrial action at the central Queensland mines has continued since workers voted down a direct offer from the company.
