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The ACTU is working on a plan to harness the momentum and methods learned through the Your Rights at Work campaign for a broader effort to build the image and capacity of the union movement.
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Construction unions and John Holland have reached an in-principle settlement to resolve their dispute over the Westgate Bridge upgrade, the company's senior IR manager says.
Legislative changes have not in the past led to an increase in union demarcation disputes and this will continue to be the case when the Federal Government's new IR laws take effect, the ACTU has told the Senate, Education and Workplace Relations Committee.
The AIRC's process for selecting default superannuation funds for modern awards will come under scrutiny in the review of Australia's superannuation system announced by Superannuation Minister Senator Nick Sherry this week.
The DEEWR has indicated today that it is open to amendments to the transitional IR legislation's provision on demarcation disputes to make it clear that applications for FWA representation orders can be made for potential as well as actual disputes.
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Police were called in to escort workers through the ranks of protestors at the Westgate Bridge upgrade construction site today, as key union leaders met with John Holland in the hope of resolving the dispute.
The ASU has used the Senate inquiry into the transitional IR legislation to argue that the AIRC has made modern awards that clearly disadvantaged whole classes of employees, predominantly women. It was an argument the AiG went on to reject, while the University of Adelaide's Professor Andrew Stewart told the committee that addressing disadvantage resulting from award modernisation was best dealt with by the AIRC in its transitional proceedings.
