REGISTERED ORGANISATIONS – representation rights – State representation order – s.137F Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 – Full Bench – joint application by Mount Isa Mines Limited, the Australian Workers’ Union and the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) for order reflecting State representation order in respect of employees of Mount Isa Mines Limited – order sought by applicants replicated effect of State representation order made by Queensland Industrial Relations Commission on 12 September 1995 – order to be known as the ‘Mount Isa Mines Lease Representation Order 2017′ – application made because from 1 January 2017, the Australian Workers’ Union of Employees, Queensland (AWUQ) and the Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union of Employees, Queensland (AMWUQ) were no longer transitionally recognised as registered organisations in the federal industrial relations system – applicants submitted granting application would maintain status quo in respect of delineation of coverage between the two applicant unions, being the federal counterparts of the AWUQ and AMWUQ – application was served on various union bodies – directions that details of any opposition to application should be set out in a position paper and filed – no position papers received – Full Bench considered legislative requirements to have been met – order issued in terms sought by applicants. Mount Isa Mines Limited and Ors
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