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.
The Victorian Government's application to terminate industrial action by nurses at public hospitals is set to continue at 9.30 tomorrow morning, after the Government case, run by the Victorian Hospitals Industrial Association, took the whole of today's hearing.
The promulgation of a NZ-style code of good faith bargaining in Australia could shift bargaining culture to one more oriented to collaboration and achievement of mutual gains, Monash University's Anthony Forsyth told ABCC inspectors today.
Full bench convenes tomorrow to consider bid to end nurses' industrial action; Agreement gets up by narrow margin at SBS; Poultry workers maintaining picket at Baiada Poultry; Union activist challenging CPSU national secretary.
