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Ewin HannanWorkplace Editor

Coles has finally secured approval of a new pay deal for its employees after a protracted process.

ACTU secretary Sally McManus has urged industry super funds to reconsider their links with the major banks.

Labor has committed to reinstating the powers of the RSRT and to the likely abolition of the government’s union regulator.

An assessment of Labor’s policy commitments shows how the rules of engagment would be rewritten by Shorten as PM.

The peak union body says a $50-a-week wage rise to low-paid workers will create up to 57,000 jobs in a year.

ACTU says strikes for sector wide pay claims a last resort as Qube Ports back off bid to rip up pay deal after industrial action.

Company fined $230,000 for unlawfully paying workers as little as $9 an hour to collect supermarket trolleys.

ACTU secretary Sally McManus laughs off government claims the union movement’s wage policy is a return to the 1970s.

MUA officer emerges as last-minute ALP national presidential candidate, in move designed to fragment left vote.

Federal Labor had left door open to legislating to allow workers to strike in support of sector-wide pay claims.