LABOR UNIONS – AUSTRALIA

Kathy Jackson hires a lawyer after union inquiry ‘ambush’

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Original article by Joanna Mather
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 8 : 31-Jul-14

The Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance & Corruption has been told that Health Services Union official Kathy Jackson withdrew A$50,000 from a union "slush fund" in 2009 and gave the money to her ex-husband. When confronted with evidence of the withdrawals at a hearing on 30 July 2014, Jackson asked for legal representation, and the hearing was adjourned. She later complained to journalists that she had been "ambushed"

CORPORATES
HEALTH SERVICES UNION OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA. ROYAL COMMISSION INTO TRADE UNION GOVERNANCE AND CORRUPTION, NATIONAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION, PETER MACCALLUM CANCER INSTITUTE

DP World avoids WA port lockout

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Original article by Lucille Keen
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 8 : 31-Jul-14

DP World has decided not to lock out more than 200 members of the Maritime Union of Australia, who will now be able to attend a stopwork meeting on 31 July 2014. The stevedoring group and the union are engaged in a dispute over the new enterprise bargaining agreement. The union intends to exert pressure on the company by announcing a four-hour stopwork and work bans. The two parties will meet again on 1 August

CORPORATES
DP WORLD AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, MARITIME UNION OF AUSTRALIA, FREMANTLE PORTS, PATRICK CORPORATION LIMITED, ASCIANO LIMITED – ASX AIO, HUTCHISON WHAMPOA LIMITED, MERMAID MARINE AUSTRALIA LIMITED – ASX MRM, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF TRANSPORT, K LINE (JAPAN) LIMITED

Lend Lease victory in Barangaroo union fight

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Original article by Greg Brown|Sarah Danckert
The Australian – Page: 23 : 25-Jul-14

Australia’s Fair Work Commission has banned workers at Lend Lease Group’s Barangaroo South project in Sydney from engaging in unlawful strike action for three months. Some 1,000 members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining & Energy Union went on strike on 24 July 2014. The dispute centres on Lend Lease’s decision to stand down a union delegate in March after he raises concerns about safety at the construction site

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LEND LEASE GROUP LIMITED – ASX LLC, AUSTRALIA. FAIR WORK COMMISSION, CONSTRUCTION, FORESTRY, MINING AND ENERGY UNION OF AUSTRALIA, FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA