The IRC is today hearing a bid by window manufacturer Stegbar, which is involved in a torrid bargaining dispute, to clear the way to pursue common law action against the AWU.
The CEPU will seek a pay rise of 4% a year over the next two years in its next bargaining round with Telstra, communications division secretary Colin Cooper confirmed today.
Royal Commissioner Terence Cole's ruling today rejecting the CFMEU's bias allegations defies logic, according to the union construction division's national secretary, John Sutton.
The RTBU is ramping up its campaign against private rail operator Pacific National after the company allegedly offered hundreds of white-collar workers a 14% pay rise as a trade-off for signing individual common law contracts.
The Federal Government has appointed industrial registrar Peter Richards and ACTU assistant secretary Bill Mansfield as IRC Commissioners, and will soon appoint a replacement for Vice President Tony McIntyre, who retired last month.
The Queensland Police Union has rejected a revised pay offer from the State Government and is opposing a bill that it says will strip police of their right to take industrial action.
The IRC has stymied a union's attempt to sidestep requirements that matters in agreements pertain to the employment relationship and ruled the Atlas Steels judgment is the authority in such cases.
Commissioner Terence Cole has refused the CFMEU's bid for him to disqualify himself on the grounds of bias from making further findings about the construction division's NSW branch.
