A BHP Group rail maintenance crew applied brakes to the wrong locomotive when they tried to help the driver of a runaway iron ore train, which ended up being deliberately derailed in the Pilbara region.
OPINION: In any normal case, efforts to economise and gain efficiencies to best represent your stakeholders would be applauded. So why is that not the case with the proposed merger of some of the nation's most influential unions?
The construction union and seven of its officials, including Joe McDonald and Mick Buchan, have incurred penalties totalling $277,000 for unlawful blockades of the Perth Children's Hospital site.
The construction union and some of its key leaders have been fined $242,000 for blocking work on the $80 million Perth International Airport expansion.
Perth mining industry software entrepreneur Norman Pater has put his money where his mouth is, with his private company, Pater Investments, supporting the Greens WA to the tune of $99,500.
Western Australian businesses contributed nearly $2 million to the two major political parties in the 2016 financial year, according to recently released disclosures, while trade unions gave about $1.1 million directly to the local branch of the Labor Party.
The builder of the $1.2 billion Perth Children's Hospital has not been blamed for asbestos found in ceiling panels but should have done more to protect the health of workers, an inquiry has found.
Resources businesses are developing innovative workplace relations strategies in response to a lack of reform from government, as costs come under continued scrutiny due to low commodity prices.
Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union WA assistant secretary Joe McDonald was among 29 union representatives fined a total of $61,000 for unlawful industrial action at Lakeside Joondalup in 2014.
Joe McDonald was among six Construction, Forrestry, Mining and Energy Union officials hit with a fine for illegally blockading a construction site in 2013, preventing 160 employees from attending work at the project.
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The building industry watchdog is taking 23 workers to the Federal Court for allegedly unlawfully laying down the tools while working on a new waste treatment plant for the Water Corporation in February.
Two of Australia's most powerful, and militant, trade unions have flagged a potential merger to create an industrial monolith spanning construction, mining and the wharfside.
Fair Work Building & Construction has brought Federal Court action against CFMEU WA assistant state secretary Joe McDonald and 49 construction workers.
Fines totaling $24,000 have been imposed by the Federal Court after CFMEU official Bradley Upton racially abused a construction company representative on a site in 2012.
Fortescue Metals Group has restructured rosters for mine workers at its operations in the Pilbara, in its latest move to cope with plunging iron ore prices.
Ten Western Australian Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union officials are among 72 nationally before the courts for alleged workplace law breaches, according to the Fair Work Building Commission.
Industry groups are at the vanguard of a renewed push for workplace reform following Productivity Commission issues papers released as part of a broad review of the labour market.
The federal government's Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption has recommended criminal charges against a number of officials from the CFMEU and Health Services Union, while the government has also released terms of reference for a review of the country's workplace relations framework.
The building industry watchdog has launched legal action against CFMEU bosses Joe McDonald and Dave Noonan over an alleged blockade at the New Children's Hospital last year.
The construction union and its militant leader Joe McDonald have been hit with their second hefty fine in one week, after being penalised for their role in unlawful industrial action at CITIC Pacific's Sino Iron project in the Pilbara.
Construction workers who participated in unlawful industrial action at Woodside's Pluto project have been ordered to pay over $1 million in total fines, with some individual fines reaching $10,000.
