"Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union" known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) and National Union of Workers v Iveco Trucks Australia Ltd

[2018] FWC 3122

[2018] FWC 3122

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.437 - Application for a protected action ballot order

"Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union" known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) and National Union of Workers
v
Iveco Trucks Australia Ltd
(B2018/424)

DEPUTY PRESIDENT GOSTENCNIK MELBOURNE, 31 MAY 2018

Proposed protected action ballot of employees of Iveco Trucks Australia Ltd.

[1] This is an application by the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) and National Union of Workers (Applicants) made under s.437 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act) for a protected action ballot order in relation to certain employees of Iveco Trucks Australia Ltd (Respondent).

[2] On 31 May 2018 my associate was advised that the Respondent did not object to the application.

[3] In the circumstances, I have decided to determine the matters on the papers without holding a hearing.

[4] On the basis of the material before me, including the statutory declarations of Mr V Pepi and Ms J Wells of the Applicants setting out the steps taken by them in bargaining with the Respondent and that they have been, and are, genuinely trying to reach agreement with the Respondent, I am satisfied that there is a notification time in relation to the proposed agreement and that the requirements in s.443(1) of the Act have been met.

[5] An order has been separately issued in PR607637.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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