This Month
The surprise pay rise tucked away in minimum wage ruling
Employer groups have reacted with alarm to the Fair Work Commission’s proposal, which was buried inside the 63-page minimum wage decision.
Female lawyers may be in line for a big pay rise
Graduate lawyers, academics, actors, architects and book editors are next in line for potentially significant gender pay rises following the minimum wage decision.
Historic real increase to minimum wage ‘not sustainable’
Employers say the Fair Work Commission has underestimated how bad productivity growth is and the biggest real increase to award wages since 2019 can’t be sustained.
May
Union claims young people voted Labor and now it’s time for payback
The retail union has written to the new workplace minister to ask her to back its case to abolish discounted rates for 18-year-olds and above in retail and fast food.
April
uComms (kind of) collapses, owing hundreds of thousands of dollars tax
The controversial polling firm, which has worked for Climate 200 and others, sold its brand and assets to a company that was half-owned by its founder.
December 2024
Union growth is back under Labor after a decade of decline
The ACTU says a return to collective bargaining under the Albanese government has helped unions increase their membership to 13 per cent of the workforce.
October 2024
Sally McManus has two black belts, but lives at risk of CFMEU fallout
The ACTU secretary has been forced to live in different places and vary her routine due to security concerns arising from the crackdown on the union.
Vocus’ $5b TPG fibre deal; New Lendlease boss; Star fundie goes solo
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September 2024
Australia’s 10 most powerful people in 2024
There are three new faces on the Power list – plus some big swings in the ranking.
August 2024
At CFMEU protests, the most important group didn’t turn up
The average trade union member these days is not a big beefy bloke in a hard hat and black T-shirt, but a 46-year-old female nurse.
Rogue CFMEU leaders vow ‘absolute destruction’ of Labor
Ousted CFMEU officials have vowed to campaign to turf Labor out in state and federal elections, as tens of thousands stopped work to protest the CFMEU administration.
Fair Work names CFMEU administrator, seeks extraordinary powers
The FWC has chosen a senior barrister to administer the union and wants to give him sweeping powers to follow dirty money and sack officials. The CFMEU says it’s taking legal advice.
July 2024
On CFMEU, Albo must emulate Hawke
The union must be deregistered, and government construction contracts must once again be used to ensure that unacceptable union behaviour is not tolerated.
Jobless rate rises; COVID-hit Biden signals exit; Trump hurts Nvidia
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McManus says ACTU will suspend CFMEU amid scandal
ACTU suspends construction union; Trump attends RNC before speeches from former rivals; Albanese, Minns and Burke all back independent administrator decision. Follow for updates.
The CFMEU can’t fix itself – just ask the banks, casinos and PwC
If union and Labor leaders really want to win back trust in the CFMEU, only an independent and transparent inquiry into the union will do.
Allan, Albanese told of union thuggery in 2022
Detailed evidence was sent more than 18 months ago that CFMEU officials were threatening violence and banning non-union preferred firms from taxpayer-funded projects.
Years of wilful incuriosity have enabled the CFMEU
The latest expressions of shock and platitudes about “zero tolerance” by senior figures in the labour movement come across as utterly disingenuous.
Fair Work Act isn’t much help dealing with the CFMEU
Stronger rules and safeguards are needed, along with an audit of the EBAs the union has signed, if proper governance is finally to be installed at the CFMEU.
ASX hits 8000; McManus speaks on CFMEU; ‘Trump Trade’ gets trickier
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