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The FWC has outlined its "interim" strategy for regulating registered organisations while it awaits the result of a review of functions it inherited as part of the Albanese Government's Secure Jobs legislation.

A CFMMEU organiser has been granted an entry permit despite a lengthy history of convictions for alcohol-related offences, the FWC in part reasoning that because none occurred in workplace settings he met the definition of a fit and proper person.

The AWU national executive has today endorsed assistant national secretary Paul Farrow to succeed departing leader Daniel Walton next month.

A CFMMEU organiser ordered to pay $10,000 out of his own pocket for entry breaches has avoided having his permit withdrawn after the FWC found that doing so would be "punitive and nothing more".

The FWC has refused to suspend engineers' industrial action at a Virgin Australia subsidiary while their employer pursues an intractable bargaining declaration, in an early test of the new Secure Jobs provision.

Former ACTU president, Opposition Leader and IR minister Simon Crean is being remembered today after dying suddenly in Berlin overnight.

Long-serving MUA national secretary Paddy Crumlin is understood to be well ahead of a rank-and-file challenger in the union's quadrennial elections, which has had problems with misspelt ballot papers and a "whistle-blower complaint" to the FWC's general manager.

Members of the CFMMEU's mining division have overwhelmingly voted to withdraw from the broader union to form an independent Mining and Energy Union.

As the CFMMEU's mining and energy division eagerly awaits the result of its demerger ballot, expected to be declared on Thursday, the RTBU's Victorian branch has told a FWC bench its locomotive division will be unable to protect members' interests if allowed to disamalgamate as it does not own the money in its bank accounts.

In the first test of new supported bargaining laws, the FWC will hear in mid-August the landmark application to authorise multi-employer negotiations involving 65 employers and 12,000 workers in the early childhood education and care sector.