Union boss gives Rio notice on contracts.

Australasian Business Intelligence,  June, 2007  

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Byline: Andrew Burrell

Jun 05, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A union leader wants access to the workers of Rio Tinto under an Australian Labor Party government. The mining company moved its staff to individual contracts in the mid-1990s. Labor has pledged to abolish Australian workplace agreements if elected federally later in 2007. Kevin Reynolds, leader of the Construction, Forestry, Mining & Energy Union in Western Australia, said that he would target Rio, which does not allow unions on its sites ...

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