Victorian Police have voted overwhelmingly to undertake protected industrial action from next Tuesday, while in NSW, unions have released new pay research as they seek to head off plans to cap state public sector pay growth at 2.5% a year.
The resources sector shouldn't treat the rest of Australia like a "magic pudding that endlessly replenishes its desire for skilled labour", and it needs to look at more worker-friendly FIFO shift patterns as competition increases for labour between WA and Queensland, according to AMWU national secretary Dave Oliver.
A FWA full bench has upheld the JJ Richards finding that unions facing an employer that refuses to bargain don't have to seek a majority support order or jump other hurdles before asking members to authorise industrial action.
Real non-farm unit labour costs have risen by 1.3% in the past year in trend terms, while GDP per hour worked in the market sector has fallen by 0.7%, according to the ABS.
Full bench to make JJ Richards ruling tomorrow; $123,000 fine for employer that exploited visa workers; MUA withdraws Brisbane industrial action; Mining has Australia's highest sales per worker, says ABS; Research paper canvasses employee entitlement issues; Striptease artists' union deregistered.
Fair Work Australia has upheld GM Holden's summary dismissal of two long-serving employees it accused of involvement in a criminal enterprise to steal car parts, but has reinstated a third worker after finding the company couldn't sustain the case against him.
Fair Work Australia will tomorrow seek to hold discussions between the CPSU and the Australian Public Service Commission, after the tribunal today conducted a hearing into the bargaining dispute between the union and major APS agencies.
A Serco subsidiary that contracted to the Victorian Government was justified in summarily dismissing a mobile speed camera operator who drove at more than twice the speed limit and at up to 123kmh in 100 zones, Fair Work Australia has found.
The Greens are urging for all states to give unions the right to launch OHS prosecutions, after the NSW Upper House rejected the Government's plan to strip the power from employee organisations.
