Unions

A walkout was staged by members of the party's Right faction when the motion, which called for the Commonwealth to end the administration of the union, was moved.

Former Bedford staff have said they are owed millions of dollars in entitlements after they were made redundant when the disability employment provider entered voluntary administration earlier this year.

An apparent request across the public service to find and suspend low-priority spending would undermine security if applied to the AFP, according to its union.

Parents and guardians have been asked to "make alternative plans" for their children as Queensland teachers walk off the job after rejecting pay offer.

An inquiry has heard violence was the "cancer" in Queensland's CFMEU branch. Here's what we have learned from the first week of public hearings.

Malaysian company MediCeram, which previously made moulds for Australian glove-maker Ansell, has denied claims it abused the rights of its Bangladeshi workers. 

Former NSW union leaders, Michael Greenfield, and his son, Michael, have been sentenced to 10 months and six months in prison.

An independent report has revealed psychological injury claims made by WA prison officers have more than doubled since 2019, and now account for a quarter of all claims. 

They ruled with fear, coercion and violence - those are the key allegations raised against the former leaders of the Queensland branch of the CFMEU.   

The accounts were heard over recent days at an inquiry in Brisbane. Tom Hartley reports

The head of one of Australia's most powerful unions has suffered a vote of no confidence amid claims he was aware of allegedly improper use of members' resources to raise money from bosses for an election slush fund.

A probe into the CFMEU has begun in Brisbane, examining allegations of bullying, violence and misogyny at the powerful construction union. 

The union has confirmed it will go ahead with protected industrial action on November 25, with teachers to walk off the job for a day.

The police union calls for Canberra's city watch house to be condemned and a new one built after faulty sewerage forced the site to be temporarily closed.

SA's Health Minister has apologised to a patient who was ramped outside hospital for several hours as the government releases its ambulance ramping data for October, which is at a six-month low. 

About 2,000 radiographers, pharmacists and radiation therapists will take industrial action from Friday.

A prisoner was taken to the hospital after the second alleged violent assault in two weeks in the South Australian prison system. 

A week of strike action by public sector unions has wrapped up with no progress on a new pay deal for thousands across health, education, and more.

An oil spill that leaked into Darwin Harbour and the substantial under-reporting of toxic emissions have put one of Australia's biggest gas companies under federal investigation.

Unions are unhappy with the state government's latest public sector pay offer and are planning stop-work actions next week. Schools and health services for non-urgent patients could be affected. 

The vote comes after 10 months of negotiations which led to about 45,000 nurses and midwives taking part in industrial action for the first time in more than 20 years.