Editor : David Marin-Guzman, (02) 8587 7682, david.marin-guzman@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist : Paul Karp. Managing Editor : Peter Schwab. Twitter : @WorkforceTR
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Union members' money spent on Belan's extended family
Union members' money was spent on the family and ex-partners of former National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW secretary's Derrick Belan. But Belan has denied knowing of the gifts or knowing the money came from his union credit card account. The Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) heard yesterday afternoon that Belan's union credit card was linked to h...
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Soccer collective agreement ends unprecedented award push
Football Federation Australia (FFA) and Professional Footballers Australia (PFA) have struck a new collective agreement granting pay rises to national women's team the Matildas and giving A-League players a 30% profit share of additional broadcast deal funds. But the agreement has ended the PFA's push for professional soccer players to be covered b...
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Union members' money spent on sex toys
Exclusive Records show ex-National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW secretary Derrick Belan's union credit card was used for almost $150 worth of spending on sex toys. The $144.87 bill from online shopping website Catch Of The Day included an “Ohhh G! G-Spot & Clitoral Stimulator!” and an Extra-Large penis ring. Also featured for $49.99 w...
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Leadership impasse leaves FSU in ‘terminal decline': Jordan
Exclusive Finance Sector Union (FSU) national secretary Fiona Jordan has warned the union is in “severe decline” and will “die” if it doesn't fix its budget and focus on member recruitment. Jordan made the comments at the FSU's national conference in Melbourne last month (October 12-15) in a speech in which she accused her n...
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FSU rule changes are anti-democratic: Jordan
Exclusive Finance Sector Union (FSU) secretary Fiona Jordan labelled “undemocratic” proposed rule changes later adopted at national conference, in a rare opportunity to speak out after the national executive gagged her from speaking about internal union matters. Jordan made the comments in her opening address at the FSU's national confe...
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Court fines union $150k over Grocon; flags deterrence concerns
A Federal Court judge has warned the construction union that the longer its “deplorable attitude” to IR laws continues the greater the penalties could be, after ordering the union and its officials to pay a total $151k for their conduct in the 2012 Grocon blockade. Justice Richard Tracey fined the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Uni...
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Full bench to examine small business dismissals
A Fair Work Commission full bench is set to look at the rarely-examined application of the Small Business Fair Dismissal code, after granting a firm permission to appeal against a decision it said contained “significant factual errors, limited reasoning and an incorrect analysis of the circumstances”. Vice President Graeme Watson, Deput...
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Editorial Team
Editor: David Marin-Guzman, (02) 8587 7682, david.marin-guzman@thomsonreuters.com . Chief Journalist: Paul Karp. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Labor senators back Government's visa penalty Bill
The Coalition Bill to introduce tough new sanctions for sponsorship and visa fraud is set for a smooth passage through parliament, after both Government and Labor senators recommended passing it unchanged despite union and employer concerns. The Senate committee majority examining the Bill has, however, also recommended establishing and implementin...
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Greenfields, strike Bill though parliament
The Coalition has its first piece of IR legislation through parliament, with the House of Representatives last night accepting Senate amendments to the Fair Work Amendment Bill 2014. The Bill will allow employers to unilaterally submit greenfields agreements for approval and restrict industrial action if an employer has refused to bargain (WF 16/10...
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Disruption is not the death of unionism: ACTU
WFD: The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has opened its two-day conference into digital disruption vowing that unions will not allow the process to unwind employee conditions, and will use technological change as an opportunity to reshape the movement. ACTU secretary Dave Oliver made the comments on November 11 in an opening address to th...
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Leadership impasse leaves FSU in ‘terminal decline': Jordan
Exclusive WFD: Finance Sector Union (FSU) national secretary Fiona Jordan has warned the union is in “severe decline” and will “die” if it doesn't fix its budget and focus on member recruitment. Jordan made the comments at the FSU's national conference in Melbourne last month (October 12-15) in a speech in which she accused ...
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FSU rule changes are anti-democratic: Jordan
Exclusive WFD: Finance Sector Union (FSU) secretary Fiona Jordan labelled “undemocratic” proposed rule changes later adopted at national conference, in a rare opportunity to speak out after the national executive gagged her from speaking about internal union matters. Jordan made the comments in her opening address at the FSU's national ...
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FWC approves Telstra ‘opt in' collective coverage
WFD: The Fair Work Commission has approved the Telstra 2015-2018 enterprise agreement (EA), despite an objection from a former Communications Worker Union (CWU) official that the deal should be scrapped because workers on individual agreements were allowed to vote on it. On Thursday (November 5) Vice President Graeme Watson held “the group of...
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HR manager acted ‘corruptly' over AWU payment: TURC counsel
WFD: A senior HR manager may face possible criminal charges over bogus invoices and secret payments to the Australian Workers Union (AWU) Vic branch as a result of the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) counsel assisting's submissions. Jeremy Stoljar SC submitted to Commissioner Dyson Heydon late Friday night that Thiess John Holland (TJH) and its...
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Discreet ‘dating services' recorded on Belan's union credit card
Exclusive WFD: Ex-National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW secretary Derrick Belan's union credit card racked up years of payments to discreet “dating related” billing services, records tabled in the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) show. An analysis of Belan's union credit card records by Workforce Daily has revealed almost three years o...
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Union members' money spent on sex toys
Exclusive WFD: Records show ex-National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW secretary Derrick Belan's union credit card was used for almost $150 worth of spending on sex toys. The $144.87 bill from online shopping website Catch Of The Day included an “Ohhh G! G-Spot & Clitoral Stimulator!” and an Extra-Large penis ring. Also featured for $49...
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Belan scored $300k plus payout deal with union
WFD: The National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW agreed to fork out more than $327k to its former state secretary Derrick Belan after he tendered his resignation in the face of his niece confessing to stealing members' money. However, the union has not paid him after NUW national secretary Tim Kennedy intervened. The Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC)...
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Belan admits union credit card used on cruise, on holidays, for tattoo
WFD: National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW secretary Derrick Belan had denied spending thousands of dollars of members' money on a four-day P&O cruise, on yearly holidays to the south coast and a tattoo of his mother and father, claiming he had arranged for his niece to pay the money back from his wages. Belan took the stand at the Trade Union Ro...
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