A bill introduced to Federal Parliament would end the pay discrimination between labour hire coal miners doing the same job as permanent employees but being paid less.
The Mining and Energy Division has lodged an appeal in the Federal Court against a Fair Work Commission decision dismissing our application for a member ballot on withdrawing from the CFMMEU.
BHP has told 80 workers at its Mt Arthur coal mine at Muswellbrook they will lose their jobs if they don’t accept a transfer to central Queensland or remote South Australia at the beginning of Nove
