The ACTU's blueprint for union renewal, unions@work, has been the catalyst for the CPSU to introduce internal reforms to arrest its declining membership.
A mining company's refusal to allow an illiterate worker any union representation while counselling him prior to his dismissal was a breach of procedural fairness - even though the worker was on an AWA, the IRC has found.
Workers covered by AWAs are much less likely to be guaranteed a wage increase during the life of their agreement then those under collective deals, according to Sydney University IR research body, ACIRRT.
Some 800 maintenance and repair employees at BHP's Port Kembla steelworks are expected to go on strike for 24 to 48 hours on Monday after a stopwork meeting over the company's plans to outsource around 300 maintenance jobs.
The IRC has refused to certify non-union agreements for two security companies that maintained that under the terms of the contracts they had won they couldn't afford to pay the weekend award rate for casuals.
Yallourn Energy will write to the President of the IRC, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, seeking a directions hearing for the compulsory arbitration of a new award following a private conference with unions yesterday.
In a move that would substantially broaden the range of traineeships accessible to both employers and employees, the ACCI has applied to the IRC to vary the National Training Wage Award.
In a case left over from the now abandoned breakaway bid by the NSW printing division of the AMWU, the majority of a full bench of the Federal Court has upheld the validity of the Workplace Relations Act's little-used disamalgamation provisions.
The Queensland branch of the CEPU plans to send out another batch of letters to non-union Telstra workers asking them to pay a $400 fee-for-service despite criticism that its action amounts to backdoor compulsory unionism.
Maverick abbatoir operator G&K O'Connor has failed in its bid to shift its employees onto the federal meat processing award, after an IRC full bench found the employer's purpose was to drive them onto AWAs.
