Qantas says it will appeal today's Federal Court finding it breached adverse action provisions in outsourcing the remainder of its ground handling jobs while grappling with the pandemic, maintaining it was motivated "only by lawful commercial reasons".
The ACTU leadership has today won re-election unopposed and pledged that the pandemic will leave behind a legacy of government action to address insecure work.
The TWU has warned that food and fuel supplies across Australia could be "crippled" by striking truck drivers after members today rejected a new deal by Toll it claims would "obliterate" decent jobs.
In the wake of NSW public sector nurses taking industrial action in pursuit of nurse-to-patient ratios, NSW Health says they "do not reflect modern rostering practises", even though they are used in the Labor states of Queensland and Victoria.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association says it is "100% committed" to supporting members who are campaigning for nurse-patient ratios, after the State IRC ordered it to not engage in industrial action.
The TWU has warned major retailers like Aldi and Amazon that they will come under union pressure during an upcoming bargaining round with major trucking companies such as Toll, Linfox, StarTrack and FedEx.
ACCI has called for employers to be indemnified if they promote and support vaccination of employees against COVID-19, in case of rare "adverse events".
The MUA has created a new non-voting "supporter" membership category that will seek to enrol community members and capitalise on the the substantial support it has built through its long history of campaigning on a wide range of political and social change movements.
Unions have urged the Morrison Government to dump the "Your Future, Your Super" legislation after reports the Coalition will allow a scheduled increase in employer super contributions from 9.5% to 10% to go ahead.
