Unions

Tasmania's reliance on volunteer ambulance officers to respond to emergencies often results in paid paramedics attending jobs on their own.

As a storm brews over federal industrial relations changes, government critics say increased worker power will take the resource-rich Pilbara region back to the "bad old days" of union power. But how bad were they?

Workers at a plant where two silos collapsed last year are at risk of serious injury or death, according to dozens of improvement notices issued by the NSW safety regulator.  

Junior Vice President at The Doctors Union, Tom Morrison, says he has worked almost 20-hour days in NSW hospitals, and doctors deserve pay comparable to other states.

NSW public sector workers are being consulted on their willingness to work "principally" in an approved office after a memo from the NSW premier's department directed employees away from work-from-home.

The industrial action centres around claims of unsustainable workloads, chronic understaffing and low pay, with the union expecting up to 9,000 doctors to take part.

The doctors' union is going ahead with its planned action despite warnings from the Industrial Relations Commission and NSW Health.

Former prime minister John Howard has always downplayed involvement in the waterfront dispute, but new evidence raises more questions about the government's knowledge of the events leading up to it. 

Health staff in the state are being put on long waitlists and paying costly fees to get to work as their fight for better pay continues.

From fancy balls to supporting impoverished mining families, being razed by fire to launching local film premieres, an arts venue in regional Victoria has endured for a century.

The federal opposition is calling for the urgent introduction of new laws to target organised crime on worksites after fresh allegations of corruption and violence in the construction division of the CFMEU.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton is calling for the Prime Minister to de-register the CFMEU following allegations of corruption within the union's Victorian branch.

The opposition labels new allegations of violence and organised crime within the embattled CFMEU as the "biggest corruption scandal in our country's history".

Victoria Police says it is expanding its operation investigating accusations of ongoing corruption and violence in the construction division of the CFMEU, including on the state government's Big Build projects.

Two CFMEU delegates have been sacked amid allegations a labour hire company paid wages for shifts that were never worked in a scam that could potentially have cost millions of dollars.

Ousted CFMEU officials are targeting Labor MPs in marginal electorates with social media attack ads that political analysts say could help the Coalition pick up seats in this year's federal election.

Underground work has stopped on the Snowy 2.0 project and a safety review is underway after a ventilation fan imploded at the site earlier this week.

Elon Musk emailed the nation's civil service workers asking them to justify their jobs, sparking pushback from some agencies and unions.

Northern Territory prison officers have returned a resounding no-confidence vote in the NT's corrections commissioner, amid pushback over a plan to hire private and interstate guards to help staff prisons.

The Fair Work Ombudsman has kicked off legal action against former union heavyweight John Setka, alleging he tried to coerce the AFL into sacking its head of umpiring.