Cadbury Schweppes Pty Ltd v Australian Liquor Hospitality & Miscellanous Workers' Union [2000] FCA 1793

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Cadbury Schweppes Pty Ltd v Australian Liquor Hospitality

& Miscellaneous Workers' Union

[2000] FCA 1793

INDUSTRIAL LAW – industrial action – picket – whether intent to coerce employer to agree to making a certified agreement – lockout – whether notice of lockout invalid – whether permissible to respond to industrial action more than once, without three days' notice Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) ss 170ML, 170MO, 170NC

Hanley v Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing & Kindred Industries Union [2000] FCA 1188 cited Lumley v Gye (1853) 118 ER 749 cited Ansett v Australian Pilots Association [1991] 1 VR 637 cited Finance Sector Union of Australia v Commonwealth Bank of Australia [2000] FCA 1468 cited Finance Sector Union v Commonwealth Bank of Australia [2000] FCA 1372 cited Barton v Armstrong [1976] AC 104 cited Pao On v Lau Yiu Long [1980] AC 614 cited Universe Tankships Inc of Monrovia v International Transport Workers' Federation [1983] 1 AC 366 referred to Crescendo Management Pty Ltd v Westpac Banking Corporation (1988) 19 NSWLR 40 referred to C T N Cash and Carry Ltd v Gallagher Ltd [1994] 4 AllER 714 referred to ACI Operations Pty Ltd v Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing & Kindred Industries Union (2000) 173 ALR 109 followed Australian Workers' Union v Yallourn Energy Pty Ltd [2000] FCA 65 cited PWB Anchor Ltd v Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing & Kindred Industries Union [2000] FCA 1482 cited National Workforce Pty Ltd v Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (1997) 75 IR 200 cited CADBURY SCHWEPPES PTY LTD v AUSTRALIAN LIQUOR HOSPITALITY & MISCELLANEOUS WORKERS' UNION and JAMES WEISSMANN V 925 of 2000 AUSTRALIAN LIQUOR HOSPITALITY & MISCELLANEOUS WORKERS' UNION v CADBURY SCHWEPPES PTY LTD V 934 of 2000 FINKELSTEIN J MELBOURNE 7 DECEMBER 2000