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Unions representing fossil fuel workers have urged the Victorian Government and the Federal Government to back the emerging offshore wind sector in a move that they say could drastically reduce carbon emissions while providing quality jobs for workers who are already being impacted by the transition out of fossil fuel industries.

Tech giant Google's team of security guards will be put on the company's payroll and will have the same benefits as other Google employees, as debate rages about inequality in the tech community.

It used to be that a job at IBM was a job for life. No more. Now Big Blue is slashing jobs worldwide in an effort to cut expenses.

Melbourne's firefighters are fighting a rather unique battle, for the right to use Facebook at work.

Three workers at Foxconn factories in China have fallen to their deaths in recent weeks and police are investigating, according to reports.

The remarkable cancellation of the National Broadband Network building tender, followed by the dramatic resignation of the head of network construction at NBN Co, Patrick Flannigan, shows that all is not well with the costing of Australia's biggest ever infrastructure project.

The $100 million promised to Telstra for staff retraining under the proposed NBN deal has won over the ACTU, which says the deal will be good for jobs and the national infrastructure.

In a statement issued late this afternoon, computing giant IBM said it will engage in good faith bargaining with the Australian Services Union.

Global computing giant IBM has filed a notice of appeal against a decision handed down by the Fair Work Commission that obliged it to start good faith negotiations with the Australian Services Union.

The Australian Services Union plans to meet with its 80 members working at IBM's Baulkham Hills Flight Deck centre shortly to decide on its next step, after the computing giant failed to meet the ASU's Friday deadline to start good faith negotiations.

The Australian Services Union has given global computing giant IBM a deadline of 5pm today to comply with a decision handed down last week by Fair Work Australia which it says obliges the company to negotiate with the union in good faith, or it will seek further orders against the company from the Court.