Rio Tinto has agreed to bargain with the CFMEU (mining and energy division) for an agreement to cover most employees in its rail operations division, breaking a drought on union collective bargaining at the miner's Pilbara iron ore operations that has lasted more than a decade.
Impasse a green light for agreement vote; Majority support bid succeeds at Xstrata; CFMEU bid for Baulderstone action ballot not premature: FWA; and FWA upholds majority support petition for Pluto LNG contractor
A Federal Court full court has overturned a ruling that could have left open to challenge hundreds of collective agreements made in the last days of the Workplace Relations Act.
University breached agreement by failing to advertise position, Court finds; When I'm 64.2 - retirement plans revealed in new ABS data; NSW government bus drivers go out; Correction, Gooley is ex-MEAA; and Company agrees to union-employee meetings, after union brings "capricious conduct" case.
Women began working in production roles in Queensland coal mines in the late '70s "as a public relations exercise rather than a genuine willingness to embrace equal opportunity", according to a new university study. But by last year they accounted for 6.3% of the industry's blue-collar workers, until their predominantly casual and contractor status meant they were first to go when the Global Financial Crisis hit.
The CEPU believes Tuesday's FWA full bench decision on planned Telstra industrial action was behind the tribunal last night ordering it to call off its pre-Christmas Australia Post strikes.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott yesterday publicly embraced his non-Conservative roots, saying his maternal grandfather was a "lifelong unionist", and that he himself once moved a strike resolution while working as a journalist at The Bulletin.
The NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal has rejected an employee's claim that the coal mining company he worked for discriminated against him by failing to provide acceptable alternative duties after he was injured while skiing.
