Nick Toscano

Sam Ismaili, a cleaner for more than four decades, has never had long-service leave.

Business criticises Labor's portable long-service leave plan

A landmark plan to allow tens of thousands of workers to transfer their long-service leave entitlements from one employer to the next has been set in motion.

Woolworths has dumped SPC Ardmona as its tinned tomato supplier.

SPC Ardmona staff fear 'huge job losses'

Workers at struggling food producer SPC Ardmona have warned of "economic devastation" across the Goulburn Valley if supermarket giant Woolworths dumps its canned fruit-sourcing arrangements.

Mr Setka and Mr Reardon were charged with criminal blackmail

Blackmail case to proceed against CFMEU leaders

The leaders of Victoria's largest building union will ask the Supreme Court to rule their blackmail charges "inadmissable", after a magistrate rejected a bid to quash the police case.

Woolworth dumps Australia's best known tinned tomatoes

Australia's biggest supermarket is taking SPC Ardmona's tinned tomatoes off its shelves after cutting a deal with a new South Australian supplier for the canned commodity.

Union official charged with assault at brewery picket line

A union official manning the picket line outside Carlton & United Breweries has been charged with assault, as a hostile feud over job losses hits 150 days.

The Farmers Federation is urging Woolworths to stay true to its agreement with SPC Ardmona.

Farmers urge Woolies to stay true blue on canned fruit

The Victorian Farmers Federation has warned the livelihoods of thousands farmers are on the line as Woolworths considers abandoning its $70 million agreement with SPC Ardmona two years into the five year deal.

The truck driver made a string of anti-Muslim comments.

Anti-Muslim remarks 'less serious' if not directed at particular person

Mining giant BHP has been told to reinstate a truck driver sacked for expressing anti-Muslim views.

'No validity' in CFMEU blackmail charges

Police charges laid against the leaders of Victoria's largest building union are "nonsense" and should be struck out immediately, a court has been told.

Grieving workers at a South Wharf building site where their colleague died in October.

Worker death toll likely to climb even higher in pre-Christmas rush

The number of Victorian workers killed so far this year has already outstripped the death toll for the whole of 2015, and new statistics suggest the worst is still to come.

The army's festering antisocial culture hit a crisis point in mid-2013.

Army leads the charge on ending antisocial culture

A decade of increasingly disturbing treatment of Australian military women presented the army with a stark choice.