The NSW Families and Communities Minister Kate Washington has faced a grilling over the growing exodus of child protection case workers, who are reportedly leaving the industry due to poor pay and burn out. Numbers from the September 2023 quarter showed the vacancy rate had increased to 12 per cent,Continue Reading
Taylor Swift fans planning on getting in line early to see the megastar could be facing delays as rail operators plan to stop work on the first day of her sold out string of concerts in Melbourne. The Rail, Tram and Bus Union is taking the industrial action, with allContinue Reading
Travellers in Western Australia will face cancellations and delays this week as pilots at Qantas subsidiary Network Aviation walk off the job for six days. Members of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots (AFAP) who fly domestically in the state for Network Aviation were initially scheduled to strike for threeContinue Reading
Taylor Swift fans planning on getting in line early to see the megastar could be facing delays as rail operators plan to stop work on the first day of her sold out string of concerts in Melbourne. The Rail, Tram and Bus Union is taking the industrial action, with allContinue Reading
More than 1000 workers will walk off the job for 24 hours on Thursday over a pay dispute with two of the east coast’s largest power companies. The Electrical Trades Union is locked in a rolling pay battle with electricity transmission and distribution giants Transgrid and Endeavour Energy and unionContinue Reading
A bitter workplace dispute between the Maritime Union and the country’s second largest container terminal operator DP World has come to an end, after the parties agreed to an “in-principle agreement” on a new enterprise deal. The truce follows a series of rolling strikes and work bans organised by theContinue Reading
In a stunning rebuke of DP World, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has accused the port operator of waging a media campaign against the Maritime Union, rather than focusing its efforts on negotiating a new workplace deal with its workers. Since October, a dispute between the union and Australia’s secondContinue Reading
A port operator is calling on the federal government to intervene in a union dispute over claims they are encouraging employees not to work, with major implications for the national supply chain. DP World Australia is currently in dispute with the Maritime Union of Australia over new claims their employeesContinue Reading
Industrial action will hit electricity transmission and distribution giant Transgrid on Friday, putting at risk progress on the company’s signature $2.3bn EnergyConnect transmission line build between South Australia and NSW. Electrical Trades Union members will stop work for an hour at 11am across the company’s portfolio of assets, including EnergyConnect,Continue Reading
A family business owner has called on the Albanese government to urgently intervene in strikes at the nation’s ports that they claim have hammered their bottom line and could make the nation’s cost-of-living crunch worse. The industrial action, led by the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), at container terminals inContinue Reading