Wednesday, 27 Jul 2011
A mining union has won a landmark legal victory that allows it to bargain on pay and conditions for workers in the Pilbara's booming iron ore operations.
The full bench of the Federal Court has agreed with the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union that non union collective agreements Rio Tinto set up with its workers are invalid.
Rio set up the agreements after the federal Labor government banned new Australian Workplace Agreements in 2008.
The CFMEU's Mr Gary Wood denies the decision will see more industrial unrest in the Pilbara. He said that "You know I wouldn't see it goes to union industrial unrest, the laws are completely different to what they were in the 70s and the 80s.”
He added that "What it means is that all parties are required to work within the provisions of the Act and the Act is a sensibly framed Act."
sourced ABC.NET
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