The Commonwealth Bank has revealed a radical plan to offer AWAs to its entire 22,000-strong award-covered workforce, ahead of the first stoppage tomorrow in the FSU's renewed industrial campaign.
Evidence linking exposure to inflight leaks of toxic fumes to a flight attendant's acute and chronic neuro-behavioural symptoms has opened the way for action against the carrier.
A full bench of the Federal Court has found the AMWU and one of its organisers guilty of coercion over attempts to force a small sub-contractor to sign a pattern union EA.
NSW's 15,000 childcare workers have won their first pay increase in three years, with the NSW IRC accepting the LHMU's application to raise rates by $41 a week - but with tradeoffs.
WR Minister Peter Reith has again hit out at both at the metal industry unions' Campaign 2000 and the ALP's IR policies, describing them as a "disaster".
After a quiet, snaggy period, Australia's IR industry has this year put a bit more effort into demonstrating why it has a sell-out annual sexism awards night named after it.
About 1,000 workers will walk off the job for 48 hours from Monday at five BHP coal mines plus its Queensland export terminal in pursuit of a set of common claims, in line with the CFMEU (mining & energy division's) new bargaining strategy.
The FSU has called statewide stopwork meetings of its 1,300 Commonwealth Bank members in WA on Monday morning, as it begins a resurgent industrial campaign against the bank's pay and conditions offer.
