The Grocon dispute appears to be over for now after the company and the construction union struck a ceasefire deal last night (September 6). The deal put an end to the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union's 16-day illegal blockade of Grocon's $1.2b Emporium project in Melbourne's CBD, in exchange for talks with Grocon CEO Daniel Grollo about t...
Grocon dispute ceasefire
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Days lost to industrial disputes hits eight-year high
WFD: Days lost to industrial disputes spiked sharply in the June quarter, up 35,800 from the March 2012 quarter to 101,700. The latest ABS data says the marked increase represents the highest level of working days lost to industrial disputes since the June quarter 2004. There were 53 disputes in the June 2012 quarter, up by 10 from the previous qua...
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SDP Richards slams brakes on Qld Children's Hospital industrial action
WFD: Fair Work Australia has put the brakes on damaging unprotected industrial action undertaken by three unions on Queensland's $1.4 billion Children's Hospital project. Senior Deputy President Peter Richards issued a s418 stop order late on Wednesday (September 5) barring industrial action at the Brisbane site for six months. He said the stoppage...
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CEPU's Dan Dwyer rejects misuse of funds claims
Communications Electrical Plumbing Union (CEPU) communications division national secretary Dan Dwyer has welcomed a Fair Work Australia investigation into allegations he misused union funds. FWA confirmed it was looking into allegations around Dwyer's purchase of a car and other travel-related expenses. However, it would not reveal who brought the ...
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Vic teachers to implement 38-hour week in 2013 if no deal on pay
WFD: Victorian public school teachers have overwhelmingly voted in favour of escalating industrial action in support of better pay. More than 40,000 teachers went on strike on Wednesday (September 5), with Australian Education Union (AEU) state president Mary Bluett warning teachers would implement a "38-hour working week" from the start of next ye...
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Unemployment down to 5.1%
WFD: The unemployment rate has decreased 0.1% to 5.1% in August, the latest ABS Labour Force figures have revealed. The number of people unemployed decreased by 10,600 people to 622,600 in August, the ABS said. Full-time employment increased by 600 people to 8,071,400.
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MUA seeks injunction to block automation at Port Botany
Asciano has rejected claims it failed to consult workers and the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) over automation plans for its Port Botany cargo terminal. In a Federal Court injunction to be lodged today (September 10), the (MUA) will seek to prevent Asciano and its subsidiary Patrick Stevedores from taking any further steps to implement automati...
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1,800 Queensland jobs to go at Energex and Ergon
The Electrical Trades Union (ETU) Queensland branch will ask Fair Work Australia to intervene in a voluntary redundancy dispute at “poles and wires provider” Energex. Organiser Trevor Gauld told Workforce Daily this morning (September 10) up to 800 jobs could go under the Energex redundancy process. Gauld said the company had failed to ...
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Bank job losses ‘highlight need for more sustainable profit margins'
The Finance Sector Union has called for “more sustainable” bank profit margins, on the back of new figures claiming 10,000 Australian bank workers have lost their jobs since the start of the global financial crisis (CFC). Global banking union UNI Finance claimed 10,000 Australians were among a total of 300,360 finance sector workers in ...
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CFMEU blasts BMA ‘shock' decision to close Gregory open-cut mine
BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) has revealed it will cease production at the Gregory open-cut mine near Emerald in Central Queensland from October 12. BMA confirmed to Workforce Daily the decision will affect 55 employees and 242 contractors. BMA said the open-cut mine was no longer profitable and the “only option available” to t...
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Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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CFMEU in talks with Xstrata over job cuts
The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) believes only about 30 frontline jobs will go at Xstrata's Ravensworth and Ulan mines, following the company's announcement yesterday of plans to cut 600 jobs across its NSW and Queensland operations. CFMEU northern district branch president Peter Jordan was meeting with Xstrata officials in Syd...
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Unions go to the polls
Union elections are in full swing around the country. In NSW , the state Public Service Association is seeking nominees for branch positions. Nominations close on Sept 26, with a ballot set down for Oct 11-30. In Queensland , Australian Maritime Officers Union (Qld) nominations close on Sept 20, with an Oct 5-26 ballot. The Independent Education Un...
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Thales to reinstate trio after bungled porn email sting
Fair Work Australia has ordered multinational defence contractor Thales to reinstate three workers it summarily dismissed for sending and receiving pornographic emails. Commissioner Geoff Bull found while the sackings were valid, there were procedural flaws and the impact on the workers had been “catastrophic”. Thales sacked production ...
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Editorial team
Editor: Rajiv Maharaj, (03) 8684 2139, rajiv.maharaj@thomsonreuters.com . Journalist: Steve Andrew. Managing Editor: Peter Schwab. Twitter: @WorkforceTR
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Grocon ups ante v CFMEU and Vic Govt seeks leave to intervene
Grocon has confirmed it has launched more legal action against the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) Victorian branch and officials Bill Oliver, John Setka and Shaun Reardon. A company spokesperson said it filed a “new” writ in the Vic Supreme Court alleging the trio breached court orders by stopping workers from enterin...
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AAWI fall ‘no cause for alarm'
The all industries average annualised wage increase (AAWI) for agreements approved in the June quarter 2012 was 3.7%, down from 4.4% in the March quarter 2012. The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations' Trends in Enterprise Bargaining Report said the unexpected fall in the (AAWI) figure was due to increased “volatility...
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FWA upholds Patrick sacking of TWU delegate after C-word bomb
A union delegate sacked for intimidating and abusing a work colleague has failed to show his dismissal was unfair. Patrick Port Logistics (PPL) sacked truck driver Phillip Slater from his job of six years after he verbally abused a job allocator. The tribunal heard Slater was the Transport Workers Union's (TWU) co-delegate at the PPL site at the ti...
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Hefty fines send warning on wage breaches
Two Melbourne cafés and their sole director have been fined almost $90,000 for underpaying two workers. The Federal Magistrates Court has fined Turbo Café Watergardens $39,000 and its owner Domenic Versace $7,920 for underpaying a worker $4,776.43 between 2008 and 2010. It fined Turbo Café Point Cook and Versace the same amounts for underpaying ano...
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Flash mobs in Queensland to protest budget's 14,000 job cuts
Unions have started state-wide protests in Brisbane against massive job cuts revealed in yesterday's state budget , with about 5,000 protesters rallying outside the state parliament at presstime. With unions organising protesters via Twitter, texting and other social media tools usually used for a ‘flash mob', it is believed that number could...
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