Rio Tinto, which earlier this year failed in its bid to get up non-union federal collective deals in three of its four Pilbara sites, has joined other WA resource industry companies in offering its workers AWAs.
The Hilton Hotel in Sydney has denied LHMU claims that it is planning to use strikebreakers when workers walk off the job for 24-hours on Saturday over the hotel's redundancy offer.
The IRC has rejected an unfair dismissal claim by a worker sacked for making personal calls during work hours, after accepting that the calls were related to the operation of another business and therefore contravened the terms of his AWA.
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.
