Plastics and rubber manufacturer Quenos has locked out its 100 Victorian operators for two months after they refused to accept a deal that the rest of the workforce voted up.
In another example of a union turning its back on enterprise bargaining, the LHMU is pursuing a common national claim on a company-by-company basis in the paint industry via Paint 2000.
In an important decision on the scope of the federal unfair dismissal laws, a full bench of the IRC has upheld an earlier finding that a member of the Royal Australian Air Force cannot not lodge a claim because he isn't an employee.
Virgin Blue has sealed a new single-union enterprise agreement with the TWU for its ground staff, which it believes will deliver significant efficiencies.
Optus has confined CPI-based pay increases to a small proportion of its workforce in a new agreement directly with employees and maintained the significant flexibility and management prerogative won in its 1994 and 1997 non-union deals.
In a landmark decision, the Federal Court has ruled the FSU did not coerce the Commonwealth Bank when it sought a court interpretation of award and agreement clauses that were at issue in enterprise bargaining negotiations.
The FSU is preparing a new strategy to ensure its members in banks and insurance companies don't have their rates of pay undercut by third-party suppliers of labour, after withdrawing its log of claims against 17 labour supply companies.
Joy Manufacturing workers have won a 4% a year pay rise, well above the 2.5% annual boost offered by the company, under the IRC's consent resolution of outstanding issues from the lengthy bargaining dispute.
