Unions say an "eleventh hour" NSW Government ultimatum to seek to terminate deals covering train workers unless they call off all protected action by tomorrow afternoon is a clear example of the type of action that federal IR Minister Tony Burke will not support.
Unions and Shell Australia have signed off on an in-principle agreement after a bitter campaign that resulted in the world's largest floating LNG platform being shuttered last month amid continuing protected strike action.
Qantas has secured new deals with freight pilots and unlicenced aircraft engineers but the threat of turmoil looms, with licensed engineers voting to stop work, ground crew considering it and the FAAA claiming domestic fight attendants are facing ultimatums.
Shell Australia has after failing in its bid to suspend protected action on its Prelude floating LNG platform decided to delay major maintenance work on the northern WA facility for almost a year.
The Tasmanian Government's anti-protest legislation, recently introduced to parliament, could be turned against unions, according to the State's peak union body.
The turmoil at airports might be about to get worse, with TWU set to apply to the FWC for a protected action ballot at a key aviation service business, dnata, which provides services to Qantas and other airlines.
The FWC has rejected a CFMMEU bid to determine a stand-down dispute in favour of an unvaccinated concreter who has largely gone unpaid for the past year while he continues to refuse to comply with his employer's direction to be inoculated against COVID-19.
The bid by Qantas to overturn a Federal Court ruling that it took unlawful adverse action against its former ground crew employees argues that some of the Fair Work Act's protected workplace rights are "time bound".
In what unions have decried as a "hyper-aggressive" industrial relations tactic, Shell Australia has begun shutting down its massive Prelude floating liquefied natural gas facility after receiving notice of new work bans covering the berthing and loading of tankers.
