Grace being interviewed on 2GB about bullying, unfair dismissal and the new OH&S legislation.
What Will Workplace Bargaining Look Like in the Future?
Article by: Grace Collier From: Business Excellence Magazine, Vol 14 No 4 Money, stress and time will be saved and employers and staff will celebrate. In the future, the only form of collective agreement legally allowed will be one made directly between employers and employees, as equal parties to the document, using a simple but safe democratic process. Click here …Read More…
Workers At War
by: Richard Guilliatt From: The Australian, November 26, 2011 12:00AM In a federal government office where she worked as a receptionist, 18 floors above Adelaide’s city centre, Charmaine Pickett was barely on speaking terms with her colleagues. Over seven years she had made bullying and harassment claims against seven fellow public servants, complaining their behaviour …Read More…
Lockouts wont solve Alan Joyce’s problems
From :The Australian October 31, 2011 Click here to read this story on The Australian website If you are going to take a baseball bat to a group of unions, you’d better not stop belting until there is none left alive. You had better finish them off once and for all because, like monsters …Read More…
Employer groups playing their opponents’ hands
From: The Australian, October 17, 2011. Having a union presence in your business is like having a bear in your lounge room.Having a union presence in your business is like having a bear in your lounge room.
BlueScope gave control to unions
From: The Australian October 10, 2011 A MAJOR steel producer now cutting 1000 jobs should be blaming itself for striking a highly unusual, archaic and costly workplace agreement that gave far too much control to key unions, according to several independent industrial relations experts.
Insider urges tougher stance on unions
From: The Australian Mon Oct 10 00:00:00 EST 2011 BEFORE Grace Collier went to the dark side of the corporate sector, she revelled in the cut-and-thrust of industrial warfare on the side of unions.
Bluescope Steel Award
BlueScope Steel (AIS) Pty Ltd – Port Kembla Steelworks Employees Award 2006.
Port Kembla Review By Grace Collier
By Grace Collier On August 22, 2011, BlueScope Steel announced a major restructure of Australian operations.
Strife returns to life on the waterfront
5 May 2011 From: Lloyd’s List DCN Article by David Sexton Australia experienced its worst waterfront industrial disruption since the famous 1998 ‘lockout’ on the weekend, with the Maritime Union holding strikes at Patrick-operated container terminals. At East Swanson Dock in Melbourne, Port Botany in Sydney and at the port of Brisbane, workers walked off …Read More…
