The WA IRC has issued its first enterprise order under the Gallop Government's new IR Act, in a decision likely to give heart to Pilbara mining unions seeking to use the same provisions. The ruling, however, is set to be appealed.
ACTU secretary Greg Combet finished the union movement's triennial Congress on an evangelical note, but he acknowledged that he was disappointed with delegates' response to Opposition leader Simon Crean's policy speech, and called on the union movement to get behind the ALP.
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Unions will meet with Qantas on Tuesday, after the airline today announced plans to increase the proportion of casuals and labour hire employees from less than 15% now to 25% in two years.
The AIRC has this afternoon issued an s127 order to end the TWU's stoppages at Melbourne Airport over the use of labour hire employees, but has directed the airline to limit the numbers and hours of the on-hire workers.
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An AIRC full bench has ruled that union officials have right of entry to any workplace bound by an award covering its members - even if it is not the predominant award.
A rank and file Hamersley Iron worker told ACTU Congress today that "it devastated us" to find that the AWU's national leadership had struck a deal with Rio Tinto for the company's Pilbara iron ore sites.
