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Burrup industrial unrest simmering.

Australasian Business Intelligence, November, 2002

Nov 24, 2002 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX)

The Western Australian (WA) Government has called on the Australian Government to intervene in a Burrup Peninsula union dispute. The dispute has erupted over an industrial relations agreement regarding the unions involved in the Woodside Petroleum liquefied natural gas project. The project is covered by an Australian Government greenfields agreement, which provides for the Australian Workers Union, the Australian Metals Workers Union and the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union. However, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union has been excluded from the agreement, which has resulted in CFMEU pursuing strike action in a bid to gain entry to the site. WA Employment Minister John Kobelke has...

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