The CEPU and CPSU are set to take their campaign for a union collective agreement at Telstra to a new level on Monday with a 24-hour nationwide strike.
The ACCC has granted conditional authorisation for a group of owner drivers, supported by the CFMEU, to collectively bargain with earthmoving contractors.
The CFMEU construction division's WA branch has signed off on new collective agreements with Brookfield Multiplex and Mirvac Constructions, but is facing resistance from contractors concerned about escalating wage costs under the deal.
WA government agencies are failing to allow employees sufficient access to important entitlements - such as flexitime, carer’s leave, purchased leave and leave without pay - that could help them improve their work/life balance, according to University of WA researcher Trish Todd. Managers have been reluctant to make changes to work organisation that would make a real difference, she says.
The ACTU has criticised the Australian Retailers Association for urging employers in the sector to use a template workplace agreement to lock-in low wages ahead of Labor's new IR laws.
Flexibility clauses could erode standards: Buchanan; Good faith should go beyond bargaining, AIER says; Union density up in US; Unions more important during financial crisis: poll; AIRC releases timetable for second round exposure draft consultation; and WA IRC sets timetable for CFMEU WA elections
Full bench rejects Cochlear bid to terminate agreement; Worker wins second bite of the cherry in dismissal case; Intimidation by union delegate no excuse for lying to the boss: AIRC; and Employer hit with record $260,000 penalty for underpaying cleaners
The ACTU spent more than $15 million on political campaigning associated with the 2007 Federal election, annual returns released by the Australian Electoral Commission yesterday reveal.
The ACTU and business groups have largely welcomed today's $42 billion economic stimulus package, though the peak union body still expects more from the Federal Government to address job insecurity and has reiterated its call for a jobs summit.
The AIRC has refused to register a proposed union to cover Virgin Blue pilots, after finding it wasn't set up properly, but the union looks likely to appeal.
