The calling of the Federal election has left several pieces of IR legislation stranded on the notice paper of the old parliament, including a push to apply a public interest test to union mergers
The ACTU's 2019 "Change the Government, Change the Rules" campaign for the May 18 federal election turns on "persuasive conversations" with a core group of undecided union members living in marginal seats.
The CFMMEU's maritime division and the NRMA-owned operator of Sydney's Manly Fast Ferry service are expected to face off in the FWC this afternoon over planned stoppages that could start tomorrow, after talks this morning failed to resolve a bargaining impasse.
The AWU is developing a "strategic alliance" with the TWU and the SDA to cover the agricultural supply chain, aiming to build density while curbing worker exploitation.
Voters will decide on May 18 whether to back a Shorten Labor Government that will introduce a "living wage" for the lowest-paid, abolish the ABCC and ROC and is likely to permit limited industry bargaining, after Prime Minister Scott Morrison called a federal election this morning.
Unions will follow today's Change the Government, Change the Rules rallies with doorknocks in Coalition-held marginal seats this weekend, as campaigning cranks up ahead of the federal election being called.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a Telstra business centre's IT technician accused of supplying drugs, accessing p-rnography, sending the director's confidential documents outside the company and remotely locking the entire workplace out of the network during an investigation into his conduct.
The Federal Court will this afternoon hear an RTBU bid for an interim injunction to reinstate a delegate it says has been unlawfully sacked by the private operator of Sydney's newest rail line because he helped it to prepare for a majority support determination application.
The AWU's national leadership is pushing for a "progressive fee structure" that would involve bigger contributions from higher-paid workers and ditching the current flat-fee regime.
The ACTU is looking to kickstart the union movement's federal election campaign by staging fourteen "Change the Rules" rallies across the nation today.
