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

[2015] FWC 6523

[2015] FWC 6523

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
VIP Plastic Packaging Pty Ltd
(B2015/1152)

DEPUTY PRESIDENT GOSTENCNIK MELBOURNE, 21 SEPTEMBER 2015

Proposed protected action ballot of employees of VIP Plastic Packaging Pty Ltd.

[1] This is an application by “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 VIP Plastic Packaging Pty Ltd (the Respondent).

[2] On 21 September 2015 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 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 in s.443(1) of the Act have been met.

[5] An order has been issued separately in PR572125.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

Printed by authority of the Commonwealth Government Printer

<Price code A, PR572127>