Engineering firm Kent has won a two-year contract on the Northern Endeavour decommissioning project, days after unions pushed for more of the work to be done locally.
The state government will tap the collective knowledge of unions and industry groups as it formulates a plan for the future of the state's strategic industrial area near Rockingham.
Alcoa Corporation has confirmed it will cease production at its Kwinana refinery this year, as it grapples with a series of challenges at its oldest WA processing operation.
Roger Cook says the funding will deliver certainty, but critics say its an admission of failure and rubber stamps the closure of Griffin Coal and Bluewaters power station in 2026.
ANALYSIS: The factional rift that enabled Roger Cook to become Labor leader has parallels with a famous preselection battle during which a young Ben Wyatt defeated union heavyweight Helen Creed.
The federal budget will fund a national authority to manage the job losses and opportunities in switching from coal-fired power to widespread renewable energy.
The AMWU will take an ongoing labour dispute with The West Australian to advertisers JB Hi-Fi and the Good Guys today, as a lockout of newspaper printers nears two weeks.
Big business and trade union support helped fill Labor's coffers in the year to June, with the party's $12.7 million haul outstripping the combined earnings of the coalition parties.
Remaining workers from The West Australian's printing division have walked off the job this afternoon, following an overnight lockout, just hours before the masthead's weekend papers are due to print.
Climate activists are continuing to block access to Woodside's Burrup Hub in Western Australia in a protest that has frustrated the company and the workers' union.
BHP and Mineral Resources have become the latest big employers to make COVID vaccinations a condition of entry at all of their Australian workplaces, joining mining giant Rio Tinto.
The second McGowan government is set for big changes, with two of the premier's three closest advisers resigning and minister Peter Tinley believed to have been demoted.
UPDATED: Woodside Petroleum has dropped plans for a 14-week fly-in, fly-out roster after presenting the option to its staff, opting instead for a less radical change as the oil and gas giant, along with mining companies, seeks to reduce the amount of travel to its remote sites.
Woodside Petroleum has cut the number of people working at its Karratha gas plant, with the decision flowing through to hundreds of contractors at companies such as Monadelphous and UGL.
Construction has officially commenced at Albemarle Corporation's Kemerton lithium plant, which is expected to cost in excess of $1 billion and create 500 construction jobs and another 500 operational jobs in the south-west of Western Australia.
Government and business must involve trade unions to develop plans to train Australia's workforce for the increased presence of automation, according to Siemens Australia chief executive Jeff Connolly.
Thousands of workers will be out in force for wage increases and job security in union-led rallies across the country over two weeks, kicking off with a mass meeting of delegates in Melbourne.
Maintenance workers at Griffin Coal are set to stop work for 24 hours from 5:30am tomorrow in response to a decision by the Fair Work Commission earlier this month to move them onto an industry award wage.
SPECIAL REPORT: In order to fully understand where political power lies in Western Australia, it's necessary to recognise the role of low-profile powerbrokers such as Carolyn Smith and Nick Goiran.
The building industry watchdog is taking 23 workers to the Federal Court for allegedly unlawfully laying down the tools while working on a new waste treatment plant for the Water Corporation in February.
Unions claim to have played a major role in ensuring an increase in the number of Western Australia-based workers building a 900-kilometre pipeline for Ichthys liquefied natural gas project off Darwin.
