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Australia: Details of McCormick Foods industrial agreement reveal union sell-out More than two months after the end of a six-week strike, by almost 100 manufacturing workers at a McCormick Foods plant in Melbourne, the details of the industrial agreement have been made public, via the Fair Work Commission. The text exposes the fraud of the United Workers Union (UWU) boast of securing a significant win for the workers. Not a single improvement in conditions was won. A new night shift was agreed to, that potentially allows the company to slash overtime wage payments, along with an annual wage i...

Tasmanian Labor Leader Appoints Long-Time Education Unionist as Chief of Staff The new leader of Tasmania’s opposition, David O’Byrne, has appointed former unionist Grahame McCulloch to be his chief of staff despite concerns over the influence of left-leaning factions within Tasmanian Labor, which are believed to have driven voters away from the Party at the previous elections. McCulloch, who was the National Tertiary Education Union leader for 25 years (from 1993 to 2018), will hold the most senior position in O’Byrne’s executive team staff. “We know we’ve got a lot of work to d...

To Charge or Not to Charge? Share this post: That seems to be the question facing police and the virtual complainant, in a matter that occurred on 24 April at the Forestierre Seventh Day Adventist Church between political hopeful Joachim Henry of the Saint Lucia Labour Party and Guy Joseph of the ruling United Workers Party. Currently contesting the Castries South East constituency in the upcoming general elections, both men met face to face at the Church where Henry confronted Joseph. Joachim Henry and Guy Joseph Henry and his wife Claudia, this past Wednesday, were expected to be formally c...

Published: 07 June 2021 Further, Fluent Commerce, the global distributed order management platform, has appointed Sydney-based Alex Pusenjak as Global Head of People.   Here are the major promotions and job moves in the world of HR. If you’ve been promoted or if you’ve moved to a new company, send us your profile and photo and we will announce your news here – just email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .  MRG People Asia (MRGPA) establishes headquarters in Kuala Lumpur and welcomes new Business Director UK-based ...

SINGAPORE - Senior Minister of State for Transport and Foreign Affairs Chee Hong Tat will join the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) on May 15 and become its deputy secretary-general, replacing Dr Koh Poh Koon, who is Senior Minister of State for Health. In a statement on Thursday (May 6), NTUC said Mr Chee - who is relinquishing his appointment in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of the Cabinet changes announced last month - will be co-opted into its central committee. The 47-year-old will also take on the role of group director of NTUC's training and transformation group. In ad...