The CPSU will resume industrial action at international airports from tomorrow, after postponing plans for Easter strikes in response to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's request in the wake of last week's terror attacks in Brussels.
The CPSU has confirmed it will postpone planned industrial action over the Easter long weekend at airports across Australia in the wake of yesterday's Brussels terror attacks.
Border Force and immigration employees will walk off the job for 24 hours on the eve of Easter and might then maintain rolling stoppages across the holiday period, as the CPSU seeks to pressure the federal government to ease restrictions in its bargaining policy in the wake of Defence employees voting down a proposed deal.
The AMWU has failed in its bid to obtain an entry permit for an organiser involved in the notorious Westgate Bridge dispute because imposing additional permit conditions would amount to "no more than shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted", says the FWC.
The FWC has refused to issue an entry permit to a CFMEU official who disrupted major Queensland construction projects this year when he visited them without authorisation.
Senior FWC member Anna Booth is today chairing negotiations between Hutchison Ports Australia and the MUA on a framework for a voluntary redundancy program the company will offer to employees in an enterprise deal that the parties have agreed to finalise by November 16.
Public servants employed by 10 of the largest APS agencies will walk off the job tomorrow to protest what the CPSU says is the federal government's "strategic" hard-line approach to bargaining.
The SA Government has reached a "no strike" agreement with three unions to ensure industrial action is not an obstacle to building new submarines in Adelaide for the Australian Navy.