Pay rises of 3.9% to 4.3% a year under offer to Fairfax journalists; NSW teachers to consider industrial action; AIRC's Jim Simmonds retire; O’Neil appointed TCFU national secretary; and ASU members to commence rolling stoppages at IBM.
The CPSU has asked the AIRC to prescribe good faith bargaining rules for the public sector, saying that numerous federal agencies - including the DEEWR - are failing to comply with new requirements to give employees the chance to opt for a union-negotiated agreement.
The NSW Supreme Court has refused to restrain a recruiter from using confidential information from his employer, but has ordered him to return some material he was sent unsolicited.
Melbourne docks productivity almost back to 2004 record; Power unions planning new anti-privatisation push, after NSW Government changes tack; Telstra conference on Monday; WO to use in-house lawyers for underpayment claims; and LHMU lobbies in Canberra for delegates' rights.
Fairfax Media has made no move to stop the illegal strike by MEAA members, who walked off the job yesterday in protest against the company's decision to cut 550 jobs across Australia and New Zealand.
Telstra unions have today lodged with the AIRC an application to seek a secret ballot of the telco's 11,000 employees covered by the current union agreement, to determine their preferred format for a replacement deal.
NSW Treasurer Michael Costa has this morning introduced legislation to the Upper House of State Parliament to privatise and lease publicly-owned electricity assets, but it appears doomed to fail after the Opposition pledged to vote against it.
A threat by a Rio Tinto subsidiary to stand down employees if they refused to undergo urine tests for drugs and alcohol wasn’t industrial action, because it was motivated by the employer’s desire to comply with OHS obligations under NSW laws, an AIRC full bench has found.
