Industrial Relations • Crikey https://www.crikey.com.au/politics/industrial-relations/ On politics, media, business, the environment and life Thu, 05 Sep 2024 04:11:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 https://www.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-android-chrome-512x512-1.png?quality=70&w=32 Industrial Relations • Crikey https://www.crikey.com.au/politics/industrial-relations/ 32 32 232040107 The Bill comes due: Shorten’s exit is the end of a quarter-century battle for Labor https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/05/bill-shorten-retirement-labor-faction-politics-infighting/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/05/bill-shorten-retirement-labor-faction-politics-infighting/#comments Thu, 05 Sep 2024 02:31:53 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1173469 Bill Shorten announces his retirement from politics next to Anthony Albanese (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)The Albo-supporting Left and the Conroy-Marles Right have been taking Shorten's outfit apart for months. Today they got him.

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/05/bill-shorten-retirement-labor-faction-politics-infighting/feed/ 94 Labor needs to succeed where the Coalition failed on CFMEU https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/28/cfmeu-labor-protest-misconduct-cbus/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/28/cfmeu-labor-protest-misconduct-cbus/#comments Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:51:40 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172126 CFMEU members on strike (Image: SIPA USA/Gemma Hubeek)The CFMEU has faced repeated allegations of misconduct that have vanished when subjected to scrutiny. Will this time be any different?

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/28/cfmeu-labor-protest-misconduct-cbus/feed/ 55 Is Labor treating the CFMEU as it did Qantas or PwC? https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/27/labor-cmfeu-qantas-pwc-banks-whataboutism/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/27/labor-cmfeu-qantas-pwc-banks-whataboutism/#comments Tue, 27 Aug 2024 04:50:43 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172008 CFMEU members rally in Sydney on Tuesday, August 27 (Image: AAP/Bianca De Marchi)Is it a WTF situation or whataboutism to even ask?

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/27/labor-cmfeu-qantas-pwc-banks-whataboutism/feed/ 37 Diana Asmar to Kimberley Kitching: The real backstory to this very mid Macbeth https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/09/diana-asmar-health-services-union-cfmeu-labor/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/09/diana-asmar-health-services-union-cfmeu-labor/#comments Fri, 09 Aug 2024 00:59:08 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1169177 Victorian Health Service Union head Diana Asmar (Image: AAP/Dan Himbrechts)The HWU has taken its low-paid, low-power, often non-English-speaking members for a ride for decades. And the ACTU has let them.

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/09/diana-asmar-health-services-union-cfmeu-labor/feed/ 6 Albanese’s childcare pay rise is part of the biggest economic story in Australia right now https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/08/anthony-albanese-childcare-early-education-pay-rise-economy/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/08/anthony-albanese-childcare-early-education-pay-rise-economy/#comments Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:40:40 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1168896 Anthony Albanese at a childcare facility in Brisbane (Image: AAP/Jono Searle)The pay rise is about maximising female workforce participation and ensuring a quality early childhood education sector.

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/08/anthony-albanese-childcare-early-education-pay-rise-economy/feed/ 17 Journalists aren’t ‘selfish’ to strike for a more audacious vision of their industry https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/30/nine-strikes-the-age-smh-afr-journalists-better-conditions/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/30/nine-strikes-the-age-smh-afr-journalists-better-conditions/#comments Mon, 29 Jul 2024 23:23:07 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1167915 Nine Publishing journalists on strike outside their office in Sydney, July 26, 2024 (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)Despite what the likes of ex-ABC chair Ita Buttrose and The Australian's James Madden seem to believe, striking journalists have no moral obligation to prioritise their audience over their working conditions.

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/30/nine-strikes-the-age-smh-afr-journalists-better-conditions/feed/ 19 The missing detail in CFMEU coverage, subtle hints of wrongdoing, and Labor takes out the trash https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/24/cfmeu-coverage-labor-gas-ccs-james-morrow-biden/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/24/cfmeu-coverage-labor-gas-ccs-james-morrow-biden/#comments Wed, 24 Jul 2024 01:55:12 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1166931 Former ABCC boss Nigel Hadgkiss and Daily Telegraph national affairs editor James Morrow (Image: Private Media)This week in Tips and Murmurs we tackle calls to bring back the ABCC, and clarify something for The Tele's James Morrow.

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/24/cfmeu-coverage-labor-gas-ccs-james-morrow-biden/feed/ 8 Time to stand with the CFMEU against a cooked-up scandal https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/19/cfmeu-scandal-guy-rundle/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/19/cfmeu-scandal-guy-rundle/#respond Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:28:41 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1166375 John Setka at a rally in 2023 (Image: AAP/James Ross)Victorian infrastructure is a predators ball. The CFMEU made sure workers got their share, against the violence of capital.

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/19/cfmeu-scandal-guy-rundle/feed/ 0 Virgin Australia pilots give the middle finger to pay deal https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/03/virgin-australia-pilots-give-the-middle-finger-to-pay-deal/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/03/virgin-australia-pilots-give-the-middle-finger-to-pay-deal/#comments Wed, 03 Jul 2024 01:27:25 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1164224 Virgin Australia signage at Brisbane Domestic Airport (Image: AAP/Russell Freeman)Crikey has obtained a strongly worded email to pilots sent by the airline's chief operating officer.

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/03/virgin-australia-pilots-give-the-middle-finger-to-pay-deal/feed/ 5 ABC’s approach has been ‘maximum aggression’, Antoinette Lattouf’s lawyer claims https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/06/26/antoinette-lattouf-abc-fwc-maximum-aggression/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/06/26/antoinette-lattouf-abc-fwc-maximum-aggression/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2024 02:06:51 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1163405 Antoinette Lattouf arrives at the Federal Court on Tuesday June 25 (Image: AAP/Dean Lewins)'The ABC from the outset has dealt with this matter with maximum aggression ... I expect this case will go to trial.'

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