CFMEU v Tahmoor Coal: Union Has No Veto Over Enterprise Agreement Proposals

Mondaq has posted interesting note by Hunt & Hunt on the decision of the industrial tribunal, Fair Work Australia's Full Bench in CFMEU v Tahmoor Coal [2010] FWAFB 3510 dealing  with the role a union has to play when non-greenfields enterprise agreements (EAs) are being negotiated under the Fair Work Act 2009. Primarily the role is only as a bargaining representative and a union will not become a party in its own right until after an EA has been approved by employees in a ballot.

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