This Month
Aged care pay rise delayed due to Labor funding decision
Pay rises for 250,000 aged care workers of up to 14 per cent – likely costing up to $5 billion extra in government funding – have been delayed until next year.
- David Marin-Guzman
June
- Exclusive
- Construction
Union bans delay $1.7b transport link to Western Sydney Airport
Industrial action has delayed the critical interchange for the city’s second airport by months and is sending subcontractors close to the wall.
- Campbell Kwan and David Marin-Guzman
Unis should face inquiry into $380m in underpayments: academics’ union
Universities are the worst underpayers of staff across the economy and now the academics’ union wants a federal inquiry.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Housing crisis
Pay dispute delays construction of 1600 homes
Industrial action by workers at poles and wires company Endeavour Energy is stalling the delivery of 1600 homes and $1.2 billion worth of warehouses in Sydney.
- Campbell Kwan and David Marin-Guzman
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
Nurses identify ‘$1.2bn’ in savings for 15 per cent pay rise
Deloitte’s report for the NSW nurses’ union found the state government may have missed out on more than $3 billion in Commonwealth funding due to inaccurate data.
- David Marin-Guzman
Union calls for ‘moratorium’ on AI-job losses in banking sector
The Finance Sector Union wants laws to ensure gains from artificial intelligence are passed on as pay rises and halt job losses to allow workers to retrain.
- David Marin-Guzman
Setka’s ‘obnoxious and rude’ CFMEU fined for wet wipes blockade
The Federal Court has fined the CFMEU $109,000 for behaviour that a judge said was emblematic of the coercion that has plagued the construction industry for decades.
- David Marin-Guzman
BHP to test exemption limits under Labor’s ‘same pay’ laws
BHP will argue its labour hire subsidiaries are really service contractors as it attempts to fight off the mining union’s landmark pay bid.
- David Marin-Guzman
Under poll pressure, Burke slams Setka ‘thuggery’
The CFMEU has demanded Labor back down on its law to break up the union, saying it will set a “terrible precedent”.
- David Marin-Guzman
Labor to introduce laws to break up CFMEU after Setka stoush
The move has come in response to union boss John Setka’s war on the AFL and is likely to fuel tensions between Setka and Labor.
- Updated
- David Marin-Guzman
Builders sign up to CFMEU NSW’s 22pc pay rise
Buildcorp has become the first builder to sign up to the CFMEU’s new industry agreement in NSW, which leapfrogs John Setka’s Victorian deal.
- David Marin-Guzman
CFMEU backs Setka’s 20pc pay deal
Thousands of members have voted for the Victorian deal, which secures 5 per cent annual increases and restores banned conditions such as union vetoes.
- David Marin-Guzman and Gus McCubbing
- Analysis
- CFMEU
Setka’s mystery motive for vendetta on AFL umpire boss
John Setka’s main justification to go after the AFL head of umpires – that he pursued an official for holding a one-minute silence over the West Gate Bridge collapse – may have never happened.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Exclusive
- CFMEU
Setka’s AFL threats force watchdog to launch investigation
The Fair Work Ombudsman is investigating John Setka’s bid to pressure the AFL to sack its new umpires head after Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke flagged potential breaches of industrial action laws.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Setka’s AFL square-up out of bounds
What amounts to an appalling abuse of union power to blackmail a third party, and make a former public servant unemployable just for doing his job, must surely be against the law.
- The AFR View
Setka’s threats against AFL umpiring chief may be illegal
John Setka’s threats over Stephen McBurney could breach workplace laws and may even amount to blackmail, lawyers say, as minister Tony Burke condemned the union campaign.
- David Marin-Guzman
Ord Minnett breached laws by dodging paid leave, minimum wage: judge
The court ruling could expose the firm and the broader finance sector to major back-pay claims from advisers.
- Updated
- David Marin-Guzman
‘Weak’ PM, Allan blamed over Setka’s AFL threat
Anthony Albanese and Victoria’s Labor government have been accused of failing to stand up to the CFMEU chief over demands the AFL sack its umpiring boss.
- Updated
- David Marin-Guzman and Patrick Durkin
Unions launch landmark ‘same job, same pay’ case against BHP
The wave of cases involving three mines in Queensland will be a key test of the Albanese government’s new laws on labour hire firms, and the mining giant says it could cost the company an extra $1.3 billion a year.
- David Marin-Guzman
Unions are at new heights of power. Now they just need to retain it
In the rocky world of industrial relations, the policy pendulum swings from one extreme to the other depending on who’s in power.
- David Marin-Guzman