Industrial relations
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Hospitals in crisis
Bus operators in firing line as watchdog looks to curb WA nurses strike
The Australian Nursing Federation WA has organised a bus schedule to carry nurses from hospitals around the city to Parliament House for a planned rally on Friday afternoon.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Hospitals in crisis
Surgeries rescheduled as WA nurses prepare to strike regardless of legality
Western Australia’s health department will move to a crisis footing from Thursday and cancel hundreds of scheduled elective surgeries ahead of the first nurses’ strike since 1998.
- by Hamish Hastie
Labor finds surprising ally in giving Fair Work more power
The NSW Liberal minister grappling with repeated strikes has backed the federal government’s push to give the Fair Work Commission power to end industrial action.
- by Angus Thompson
Labor inches up small business threshold by five people in Senate review
Senate review proposes that businesses with 19 or fewer staff could opt out of multi-party bargaining - but the number isn’t high enough for David Pocock.
- by Angus Thompson
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WA business lobby confuses propaganda with evidence
The WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry said it offered evidence, not scaremongering, that Labor’s proposed industrial reforms were terrible for WA. In reality, it did the opposite.
- by Peter Milne
Pocock pushes for what lower house MPs couldn’t get from IR bill
David Pocock, who controls the fate of the government’s industrial relations laws in the Senate, is pushing to raise the threshold for businesses to be pulled into multi-employer deals.
- by Angus Thompson
Labor stares down industry revolt as it races the clock to pass swathe of laws
The PM says his critics are wrong to reject higher wages as industry groups launch an ad campaign claiming multi-employer bargaining laws could push up inflation and interest rates.
- by David Crowe
‘Extra time’: Albanese braces for drawn-out Senate fight on IR laws
Anthony Albanese admitted on Sunday he might need to extend parliament to strike a deal with Senate crossbenchers on the government’s workplace laws.
- by David Crowe
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Hospitals in crisis
Nurses union claims government trying to stifle poll on pay offer
It is just a few shambolic days after a hospital strike was averted, and now a fresh battle has erupted in a bitter war over WA nurses’ pay and conditions.
- by Hamish Hastie
Labor wants IR laws for Christmas but it’s running out of time to sway the crossbench
The government is running out of time to enact its agenda after setting aside just four days of parliament to debate the controversial workplace laws.
- by David Crowe
Premier offers commuters week of fare-free travel in bid to stop union
The offer was made less than an hour after the rail union vowed to press ahead with major industrial action next week unless fare-free travel was on the cards.
- by Matt O'Sullivan and Tom Rabe