South Australia has reached an in-principle agreement with the Federal Government for a text-based referral of its private sector IR powers to Canberra from January 1 next year, IR Minister Paul Caica announced today.
Hundreds of construction workers have rallied in Adelaide as Ark Tribe, the first rank and file worker to be charged for refusing to attend an interview with the ABCC, faced court today.
Magistrate stresses need for fair trial, but dismisses action over Gillard comments; Unions fear WA IR review heralds return of individual contracts; Government loosens purse-strings in employee share scheme fix; and Rio Tinto managers should resign over Chinalco, says AWU
The ACTU has raised its affiliation fees by 11.2% to $3 per union member, after removing the levy that financed its campaign to defeat the Coalition in the 2007 federal election.
The AIRC's award modernisation full bench has listed for mention and directions late this month Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard's new requirement - strongly criticised by the union movement - to create a separate modern award for the restaurant and catering industry.
The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has told ACTU Congress that he saw the Fair Work Act as a “fundamental reform in Labor’s proud reform tradition” - alongside Medicare and universal superannuation - that he wanted to last “for decades”.
The SDA is in the final stages of negotiating its first collective agreement with Spotlight, formerly a high-profile user of Work Choices AWAs, the union’s national secretary Joe de Bruyn has told ACTU Congress.
A move by US unions to reach out to sympathetic non-members delivered a massive boost to their efforts to help Barack Obama win the presidency, a senior official from the nation's peak union organisation said in Brisbane today.
