“Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) v Brisbane Bus Build Pty Ltd

[2019] FWC 5630

[2019] FWC 5630

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.437—Protected action

“Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU)
v
Brisbane Bus Build Pty Ltd
(B2019/641)

COMMISSIONER SIMPSON BRISBANE, 15 AUGUST 2019

Proposed protected action ballot of employees of Brisbane Bus Build Pty Ltd.

[1] This decision concerns an application made pursuant to s.437 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) by the Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU). The AMWU seeks a protected action ballot order in relation to certain employees of Brisbane Bus Build Pty Ltd Limited (the Employer).

[2] The Employer advised the Commission on 9 August 2019 that it opposed the application.

[3] The AMWU requested the matter be listed for conference. A conference was held on 13 August 2019.

[4] At the conference the Employer withdrew its objection to the application.

[5] On the basis that the Employer does not object to the application, and after considering the information set out in the application and the accompanying Form F34B statutory declaration of Mr Bill Thanas, Assistant Branch Secretary of the AMWU, I am satisfied that the requirements of ss 443(1)(a) and (b) have been made met and that, accordingly, an order must be made. An order, PR711290, based on the draft provided by the AMWU, will be issued with this decision.

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