Essential Energy is in the FWC seeking to suspend on safety grounds a planned 80-hour strike that starts across NSW tonight, while it has by-passed unions with a replacement agreement offer it is putting directly to its workforce.
Lend Lease has secured an order to prevent further industrial action at a strife-torn hospital construction site until the project's scheduled completion in August, but the FWC has stopped short of finding that the CFMEU and CEPU organised workers to walk off the job.
The CFMEU, CEPU and three individual organisers have been fined a combined total of almost $95,000 for encouraging workers at the Ichthys LNG project to stop work and disrupt a "critical" concrete pour in protest at the project's allegedly inadequate "park and ride" facilities.
Stevedore Patrick is pushing the MUA to agree to the FWC arbitrating a new enterprise agreement for its container terminals, after the union's members overwhelmingly rejected a unilateral offer.
Workers at the NSW Government-owned electricity distributor Essential Energy will walk off the job for 24 hours tomorrow, ahead of the employer seeking next month to terminate its enterprise agreement.
Fairfax journalists might face individual fines after Ombudsman probe; FSU seeks better communications strategy; FSU preparing logs of claim for NAB and major industry super fund; and CFMEU penalties just a cost of doing business, says building cop.
The Fair Work Commission has suspended protected industrial action by CPSU members at international airports for 90 days, after finding that plans to escalate strikes posed a "serious and compelling" risk.
The latest round of industrial action by CPSU members working in immigration and customs at airports and seaports has pushed security risks from tolerable to unacceptable, the Fair Work Commission has heard.
