Workers will take matters into their own hands after failing to reach a remuneration agreement with a multinational resources producer.
Several employees have decided to take industrial action because they allegedly received no wage increase for three years at Rio Tinto’s Gove mine, 650km east of Darwin. The United Workers Union (UWU) claims the proponent repeatedly postponed pay negotiations.
“All our members in Gove wanted out of this bargaining process was a few clauses tidied up, and a reasonable wage increase afforded to them, at a mine which has constantly met or exceeded production targets for years,” UWU Northern Territory organiser Lloyd Pumpa said according to the Australian Associated Press.
“Workers are completely fed up with the blown-out process.”
Pumpa confirmed any potential action will be protected by the Fair Work Act, and is “imminent”.
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