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

[2015] FWC 6017

[2015] FWC 6017

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)
v
Diecraft Australia Pty Ltd
(B2015/1134)

DEPUTY PRESIDENT GOSTENCNIK MELBOURNE, 1 SEPTEMBER 2015

Proposed protected action ballot of employees of Diecraft Australia Pty 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) (the Applicant) made under s.437 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) for a protected action ballot order in relation to certain employees of Diecraft Australia Pty Ltd (the Respondent).

[2] On 31 August 2015 my associate was advised that the Respondent Company did not object to the application.

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

[4] On the basis of the material before me, including the statutory declaration of Mr B Terzic of the Applicant, setting out the steps taken by it in bargaining with the Respondent Company and that it has been, and is, genuinely trying to reach agreement with the Respondent Company, I am satisfied that the requirements of s.443(1) of the Act have been met.

[5] An order has been issued separately in PR571402.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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