A massive unions-supported protest was underway at Webb Dock at presstime as the so-called community protest - or picket line and blockade - against Victoria International Container Terminals (VICT) reached 12 days. ACTU secretary Sally McManus attended the rally today wearing a ‘change the rules' t-shirt. The rally, supported by the major un...
Sally McManus lends support to ‘illegal' Webb Dock blockade
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Women in mines: FWC sheds light on employer obligations
The Fair Work Commission has moved to reassure women miners while urging extra employer vigilance after reinstating a veteran mine technician sacked for allegedly groping a mine's first female trainee on the bottom. Commissioner Paula Spencer ordered Anglo Coal trading as Anglo American to reinstate Vincent Wilson, after finding no clear proof he m...
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Glencore strikes EA deals at 13 mines as Nth Oaky lockout extended
Glencore has stitched up enterprise agreement deals (EA) at 13 out of 14 of its coalmines, the company has confirmed to Workforce . The 150-day plus lockout of 190 workers at its Oaky North mine is the exception. The company extended the lockout for a further two weeks on Tuesday, with the long-running and often bitter dispute ( WF 6/10/2017 , WF 1...
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Glencore mine lockout blows out days lost to industrial disputes stats
Coal mining sector industrial action, in particular the lock-out at Glencore's Oaky North mine ( see above ), have distorted the latest days lost to industrial disputes figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics this week. The ABS figures showed there were 45,900 working days lost due to industrial disputes in the September quarter 201...
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Caltex accused of fake pay records
A Caltex service station in Sydney's inner west is facing the Federal Circuit Court over allegations it falsified records of wage rates paid to overseas workers. The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) says it requested documents from the Caltex Five Dock franchise through a notice to produce as part of an audit last year. The service station provided contra...
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Ausgrid talks progress on redundancies
An enterprise agreement (EA) redundancy “sticking point” between Ausgrid and combined unions has been settled “in principle”. A United Services Union (USU) member update said the unions and Ausgrid had agreed to redundancy caps of 250 workers a year from July 2020, rather than uncapped redundancies Ausgrid had insisted on ( ...
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Cricket union to canvas play on Xmas day
The cricket players' union says it will canvas players on whether they want to play on Christmas Day. The Australian Crickets Association was responding this morning (December 8) to a media release by Cricket Australia about the possible scheduling of Big Bash games on Christmas Day. ACA chief executive Alistair Nicholson said the evidence “c...
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VICT seeks Webb Dock injunction against Vic Trades Hall sec Hilakari
At presstime, Victoria International Container Terminals (VICT) was in the Victorian Supreme Court seeking an injunction against Vic Trades Hall Congress secretary Luke Hilakari. Stuart Wood QC is representing VICT in a hearing that started at 3pm. VICT believes Hilakari played a central role in organising a massive protest at Webb Dock last Friday...
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MUA slams ‘campaign of lies'
MUA national deputy secretary Will Tracey accused VICT of running a “campaign of lies”. In a statement shortly before presstime, Tracey said the worker at the centre of the dispute (see VICT seeks Webb Dock injunction above) was granted the required maritime security identification card MSIC security clearance on Friday (Dec 8). “...
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Penalty regime ‘essential' in Modern Slavery Act, says unions
Unions say they will champion the need for a penalty regime in a Modern Slavery Act set to go to Federal Parliament for enactment early next year ( WF 8/09/2017 ). In a statement this morning (December 11), ACTU President Ged Kearney claimed early feedback suggested the Coalition Government will not support a penalty regime when the legislation goe...
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Sacked safety officer fails to show enforcement not part of his duties
A safety officer sacked for not meeting the enforcement requirements of his job was not unfairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has found. Anthonie Nieberg was appealing his 2017 sacking by the Heran Building Group Pty Ltd, trading as Heran Building Group. Nieberg's unfair dismissal application to the cmn claimed his role was to advise the com...
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No manners, so no hearing: cmn tosses out claim from tardy litigant
The Fair Work Commission has tossed out an application for an unfair dismissal remedy after a refrigeration industry worker repeatedly ignored dates for hearing the matter and told the cmn to “do your job and stop bothering me”. Shane Spencer sought a remedy after Emerald Refrigerated Logistics sacked him. The application was listed for...
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MUA slams ‘campaign of lies'
MUA national deputy secretary Will Tracey accused VICT of running a “campaign of lies”. In a statement shortly before presstime, Tracey said the worker at the centre of the dispute (see VICT seeks Webb Dock injunction above) was granted the required maritime security identification card MSIC security clearance on Friday (Dec 8). “...
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Penalty regime ‘essential' in Modern Slavery Act, says unions
Unions say they will champion the need for a penalty regime in a Modern Slavery Act set to go to Federal Parliament for enactment early next year ( WF 8/09/2017 ). In a statement this morning (December 11), ACTU President Ged Kearney claimed early feedback suggested the Coalition Government will not support a penalty regime when the legislation goe...
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Webb Dock injunctions against CFMEU and VTHC sec Hilakari
Shortly before presstime, Victoria International Container Terminals (VICT) obtained injunctions againstVic Trades Hall Congress secretary Luke Hilakari and the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU). The injunctions are on top of ones already in place against the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), including a temporary 100m exclusion zo...
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Bench to decide fate of family-friendly work arrangements
A Fair Work Commission full bench was sitting in Sydney on pressday (December 12) on the first day of a six-day modern award hearing on whether to introduce new family-friendly work arrangements ( WF23/11/2017 ). Employers are strongly opposing the Australian Council of Trade Union's (ACTU) family friendly arrangements test case, which is seeking n...
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Report says penalty rate cut failed to create new jobs
A new report has debunked employer arguments that a cut in penalty rates would create more jobs. The report - An Analysis of the Impact of Penalty Rate Cuts on National Growth Trends - is by the McKell Institute, a Labor-aligned think tank. It analyses the impact of the Fair Work Commission's decision in February to cut penalty rates for fast food,...
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SA folds, WA holds while NT votes in public service pay battles
The South Australian Government has bowed to union pressure in a battle over public service pay, yesterday agreeing to pay rises of 2% and more a year for SA's 37,000 public servants ( WF 4/10/2017 ). Both SA and WA had promised to cap public service wages at1.5% a year or less, in response to budget blowouts in both states. WA held fast, with an a...
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WA Govt workers fight job cuts
While the WA Government has chalked up a win in limiting pay increases to a $1,000 a year (see story, above) , public servants are less happy with proposed wide-scale job cuts to meet the state's budget blowout. On pressday (December 12), the Community Public Sector Union and Civil Service Association announced hundreds of members employed at the W...
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Webb Dock injunctions against CFMEU and VTHC sec Hilakari
Shortly before presstime, Victoria International Container Terminals (VICT) obtained injunctions againstVic Trades Hall Congress secretary Luke Hilakari and the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU). The injunctions are on top of ones already in place against the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), including a temporary 100m exclusion zo...
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