“Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU)

[2013] FWCA 7336

[2013] FWCA 7336

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

“Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU)
(AG2013/2926)

PRIMAWELD ENGINEERING PTY LTD AND AMWU & AWU AUSTRALIAN PAPER - MARYVALE MILL DIP PLANT PROJECT METAL ENGINEERING ON-SITE CONSTRUCTION AGREEMENT 2011-2014

Building, metal and civil construction industries
DEPUTY PRESIDENT GOOLEY	MELBOURNE, 24 SEPTEMBER 2013

PRIMAWELD ENGINEERING PTY LTD and AMWU & AWU AUSTRALIAN PAPER - MARYVALE MILL DIP PLANT PROJECT Metal Engineering On-Site Construction Agreement 2011-2014.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the PRIMAWELD ENGINEERING PTY LTD and AMWU & AWU AUSTRALIAN PAPER - MARYVALE MILL DIP PLANT PROJECT Metal Engineering On-Site Construction Agreement 2011-2014 (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act). It has been made by “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU). The Agreement is a greenfields agreement.

[2] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186 and 187 of the Act, as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[3] I am satisfied that the AMWU and the AWU, the employee organisations to be covered by the agreement, are entitled to represent the industrial interests of a majority of employees who will be covered by the Agreement in relation to work that is to be performed under it. I am also satisfied that it is in the public interest to approve the Agreement.

[4] The Agreement was approved on 23 September 2013 and, in accordance with s.54, will operate from 30 September 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2014.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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