The FWC has suspended the entry permit of a CFMEU official who behaved in an "aggressive and threatening manner" when he told a project manager at a construction site he wanted to "smash" someone.
The crisis within Victoria's Country Fire Authority has deepened, with its chief fire officer joining the exodus from its management ranks, saying the organisation's proposed agreement has "compromised" his role.
The CFMEU has won a document discovery order over the withdrawn prosecution of its national secretary Michael O'Connor, in a judgment that ropes in Employment Minster Michaelia Cash.
The Fair Work Ombudsman is pursuing the NUW for losses incurred by Woolworths as a result of alleged unlawful industrial action last year at two of the retailer's distribution centres in Melbourne.
Thousands of Victoria's public sector mental health nurses have this morning escalated protected industrial action to "expedite" negotiations for a new agreement, while in the private sector the ANMF is "strongly recommending" Healthscope nurses and midwives vote up a proposed deal.
The AWU has warned BlueScope Steel management to be aware it is sitting on a workplace "bomb that's about to explode" with its continued cost-cutting at the NSW plant producing Colorbond products.
The FWC has found a BHP Billiton subsidiary is entitled to dock the wages of a haul truck driver who took part in an unofficial "go-slow" over stalled enterprise bargaining negotiations when he claimed he was driving gently to avoid raising dust.
The Federal Court has issued an interim injunction that restricts the CFMEU to convening no more than one union meeting a week for building workers engaged by subcontractors on a Commonwealth Games construction project on Queensland's Gold Coast.
The Federal Court has found that the CFMEU unlawfully coerced construction joint venturers when it threatened to take industrial action on a "national scale" and bring about "Armageddon" if they sought to enforce an anti-strike order.
The CFMEU says the construction watchdog prosecuted its national secretary, Michael O'Connor, on the basis of flimsy evidence, in an effort to politically embarrass his brother, shadow workplace relations minister Brendan O'Connor.
