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.
An AIRC full bench has today effectively flowed-on the AFPC's $21.66-a-week pay rise to workers on transitional awards, rounding the amount up to $21.70.
New senators sworn in; John Hogg new Senate president; First sign of ALP unrest, says Nelson; Unions NSW takes paid maternity leave campaign to Canberra; Fairfax sheds jobs; and Make tomorrow equal pay day, says EOWA.
In an important decision on random drug testing, the AIRC has determined that Shell should use oral fluid testing rather than urine sampling - which invades employees' privacy more - at its Clyde Refinery and Gore Bay terminal in NSW.
Building unions have today intensified their campaign against the Federal Government’s decision to retain the ABCC and the BCII Act until 2010, launching a national television advertisement and inviting ALP members and senators to a briefing in Canberra on the reach of the building laws.
