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Secret BHP footage, ads target wage-cutting, coal industry myth-busting and more in the September Common Cause.

Hundreds of workers from Boggabri Coal have walked off the job for 48 hours and attended a mass meeting in Gunnedah to stand up for pay and conditions in line with coal miners in other regions.

The CFMEU Mining and Energy Division’s Central Council has today unanimously supported a motion condemning the union’s Construction and General Division’s Victorian Branch for poaching members from

Mineworkers at Peabody’s Coppabella mine in central Queensland are set to receive a backpay windfall after the Fair Work Commission found that a requirement to attend the site office 15 minutes bef

CFMEU 24th Annual Memorial Day Service, Cessnock
Sunday 8 September 2019

To stand here with you today, for my first time as Labor leader, is a sombre honour.

BHP has set up a shelf company, Operations Services, to employ a cut price workforce at BHP mines.

The Miners Union has today launched an ad campaign calling out BHP for dishonestly offering ‘BHP jobs’ to coal miners through shelf companies established for a dollar last year.

Mineworkers at Boggabri Coal Mine have walked off the job for a second day in a row in their bid to restore fair pay and conditions at the open cut mine in NSW’s Gunnedah Basin.

Open cut mines in Central Queensland must do more to control dust in dry weather conditions, the Miners Union said today.

Our South Western District has farewelled Secretary Lee Webb who retired this month, with Andy Davey elected to replace him.