The CEPU claims Australia Post has threatened to remove union dues deduction provisions unless it stops generating negative media coverage, but the employer denies this is the case.
Most of the CPSU's divisional and sectional leadership has been retained without going to an election, after the close of nominations for November's poll.
HR has used IT and a range of soft tools to create a culture of control in call centres that is similar to that in traditional smokestack industries, according to IR academic Bob Russell, while a call centre union leader says the workplaces are a "new frontier of control".
About 120 Pampas Pastry workers have cut short a threatened two-month strike after just three weeks, following a new bargaining position from the company that almost doubles its original pay offer.
A NSW IRC full bench has rejected a special case bid by Broken Hill employers to be relieved from paying the $18 safety net increase because of incapacity to pay.
A former NSW DIR worker has been awarded $5,000 after a tribunal found he had been victimised for making discrimination complaints against his employer.
A last-minute change of strategy by Mayne Group Limited has led to the shelving of a groundbreaking deal to protect employee entitlements after a transmission of business.