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Bluescope workers proceed to ballot

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Bluescope Steel workers represented by the Australian Workers Union (AWU) will vote on industrial action, after Fair Work Australia granted a protection action ballot order (PABO) on press day. Bluescope briefly delayed a PABO sought by the AWU when the union failed to give a copy of their application to the Australian Electoral Commission, as requ...

BMA pay talks move to site level, as Rio Tinto forecasts job cuts

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Pay talks between BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) and Bowen Basin coal mine unions will move to the site level next week, amid speculation about possible job cuts at Rio Tinto's neighbouring Clermont coal mine. Neither BMA nor the single bargaining unit acting on behalf of the unions were commenting on the pay talks this week, under a self-i...

Oliver outlines ACTU campaigning strategy

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Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) secretary Dave Oliver last night outlined his vision for unions as a high profile campaigning movement in his first address to a Unions NSW delegates meeting since taking up his new position. Oliver praised community-based campaigns like the Transport Workers' Union's safe rates campaign, but also called fo...

GFB orders requiring negotiating position breached Act

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WFD: In a significant judgment, the Federal Court has found an "inevitable tension" between Fair Work Act provisions that could prevent Fair Work Australia formulating orders giving effect to good faith bargaining (GFB) requirements. Justice Geoffrey Flick found that the Act's GFB provisions require a party to approach enterprise bargaining "with a...

Toll withdraws threat to breach union picket line

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WFD: Toll was back in talks with the National Union of Workers (NUW) yesterday (July 19) in an attempt to broker a new enterprise agreement (EA) for its Somerton distribution centre workers, after it failed to punch a hole through a worker picket line on Wednesday (July 18 - see below, Toll heads to court after failing to break picket line) . Toll ...

Toll heads to court after failing to break picket line

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WFD: Toll Holdings' Victoria Supreme Court action on Wednesday sought a permanent injunction against the workers' blockade at Coles' Somerton distribution centre. The court action followed Toll's failed attempt on Wednesday morning (July 18) to have a bus of its employees break through the Somerton picket line and enter the site, despite Supreme Co...

Toll to appeal FWA orders

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WFD: Toll spokesperson Chris Whitefield told Workforce Daily the company would appeal Fair Work Australia's orders last Friday for it to defer for three weeks from putting its enterprise agreement offer to a secret ballot of the entire site. On Tuesday (July 17), the parties commenced meetings scheduled as a result of the FWA orders. On top of reje...

Bid to pierce corporate shield fails

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Fair Work Australia has ruled a managing director of a company should not be made the respondent in unfair dismissal proceedings, rejecting union claims the true ownership was hidden by a complex corporate structure. The Health Services Union (HSU) sought to have WorkCare Management Pty Ltd MD Kevin Zammitt named as respondent in unfair dismissal c...

Dock 'strike' talks on hold until return of union big guns

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WFD: The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) will delay any decision on an industrial response to planned job cuts at Patrick Stevedores' Port Botany container terminal until after the return of key officials next week. A union spokesperson told Workforce Daily this morning the union was currently without secretary Paddy Crumlin and deputy national s...

ETU national office outraged by Mighell press release re US workers

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WFD: The Electrical Trades Union national office is considering legal action against ETU Victorian branch secretary Dean Mighell over a press release he sent on Wednesday (July 18) slamming the national office's supposed role in importing up to 2,000 skilled workers to work on multimillion dollar resource projects. The claims - aired on the front p...

Temby report; I'm 'vindicated', Williamson finished: Jackson

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WFD: Health Services Union (HSU) national secretary Kathy Jackson told Workforce Daily on July 24 she has been "totally vindicated" by the contents of a leaked report into the HSU East branch. She predicted arch rival former HSU East general secretary Michael Williamson was "finished" in public life. The report by Ian Temby QC and accountant Dennis...

Jackson admin appeal expedited

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WFD: Kathy Jackson has withdrawn her application for stay orders against the orders to appoint an administrator to HSU East after the court committed to expedite her appeal application. Federal Court Justice Richard Edmonds on Tuesday (July 24) said he would "do everything in my power to give a hearing date as soon as possible", suggesting a hearin...

ETU 'fight within the family' heads to mediation

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WFD: The warring state and national branches of the Electrical Trades Union have been ordered into mediation to resolve the blocking of NSW voting rights ahead of a Federal Full Court appeal of the matter to be heard mid-August (WF18285) . ETU NSW secretary Steve Butler had filed a Federal Court application last month claiming the union rules as th...

FWA issues workplace determination for Vic public service

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WFD: A Fair Work Australia full bench has issued a workplace determination giving effect to the pay deal struck between the Community Sector Union (CPSU) and Victorian Government earlier this month ( WF18283 ) . The bench - Senior Deputy Presidents Jennifer Acton and Lea Drake, and Commissioner Julius Roe - said the more than 35,000 public servants...

Toll strike over

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WFD: Toll workers at Coles' Somerton distribution centre ended their two-week strike on Monday night (July 23) after voting up a revised offer from the company. National Union of Workers spokesperson Godfrey Moase told Workforce workers unanimously voted up the deal, which will see three annual wage rises totalling 10.25%, and increased shift loadi...

330 jobs to go at Caltex refinery

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WFD: Calls for the NSW Government to mount an 11th-hour rescue to prevent jobs losses at Caltex's Kurnell oil refinery are unlikely to be heeded, with the govt only going as far as saying it would "work with the company to mitigate the impact". In an Australian Stock Exchange statement yesterday (July 26), Caltex announced it would close the refine...

Baulderstone faces charges over alleged misrepresentation

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WFD: A major construction company misled a worker when it convinced him to go from his preferred salaried arrangement to award rates under pressure from a union, according to a Fair Work Building and Construction (FWBC) prosecution. In a directions hearing on Wednesday (July 25) before the Federal Magistrates Court, the FWBC alleged a Construction ...

ACTU puts joint employment laws on the agenda

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WFD: Unions are seeking to push for joint employment laws that would see major employers forced to take responsibility for labour hire firms and subcontractors. An ACTU national executive meeting on Wednesday (July 25) considered lobbying the government to change the Fair Work Act so that it recognises both labour provider and host employer as havi...

Jackson confirms move to Sydney with VP Lawler

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WFD: Health Services Union (HSU) national Secretary Kathy Jackson has confirmed to Workforce Daily she is relocating to Sydney with her partner, Fair Work Australia Vice President Michael Lawler, to contest the HSU East branch's post-administration election. VP Lawler's children live in Sydney. "We're well down the track with moving, and we will be...

FM rejects CEPU claim that training is work in Telco Services Award

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WFD: The Federal Magistrate Court has followed the Federal Court full court Master Builders [2007] precedent that work and training are two different things, and ruled expenses incurred by a trainee in attending training are not reimbursable under the Telecommunications Services Award 2010 . FM Robert Cameron made the ruling in proceedings brought ...
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