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Union survey highlights Operations Services gripes

Written by dev on . Posted in All News, Coal, Energy.

A mineworkers' union says a survey has shown only 4 per cent of those employed by BHP’s Operations Services are satisfied that their wages and conditions stack up with Queensland coal industry standards.

It comes as the mining giant tries to lock in their substandard conditions with fresh Enterprise Agreements, CFMEU Mining and Energy says.

Queensland President Stephen Smyth said the survey results should send a clear message to BHP that it was time to negotiate a better deal with their Operations Services (OS) Queensland coal workforce. 

Mr Smyth said the union was pushing to get BHP to. . .

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Fair Work win in union fight over BHP labour model

Written by dev on . Posted in All News, Coal, Processing / Manufacturing.

The miners' union has claimed a victory in its battle against BHP over its Operations Services workforce conditions.

The Fair Work Commission this week upheld an appeal against approval of the enterprise agreements covering Operations Services staff over concerns they weren’t genuinely agreed by workers. 

It was an interim decision allowing BHP seven days to decide whether it will make further oral submissions to the Fair Work Commission on the enterprise agreements.

The CFMEU says the two agreements were voted on by a small number of iron ore workers in Western Australia before being applied to a growing Operations. . .

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BHP Operations Services model faces legal scrutiny

Written by dev on . Posted in All News, Coal, Energy, Processing / Manufacturing.

Employment agreements covering BHP's Operations Services arm will go back before the courts after a union win in the Fair Work Commission on Friday.

The commission upheld an appeal by a raft of unions against the approval of two enterprise agreements covering workers employed by the in-house division.

CFMEU National President Tony Maher described the decision as a setback to BHP’s strategy of cutting wages by employing people on non-union agreements through an in-house labour hire provider.

“BHP already has perfectly good enterprise agreements in place at its coal operations and their Operations Services employees. . .

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