Submarine builder ASC has acknowledged industrial action underway at its headquarters at Osborne Naval Shipyard in Adelaide and pledged to work for a mutually beneficial outcome to the dispute. However according to an unconfirmed report on Channel 7 news the government owned business cut a proposed wage rise of 10 percent to 6.75 percent, suggesting…
South Australian submarine workers have decided to walk off the job this morning at 7.30am at the Osborne Naval Shipyard in a dispute over unequal pay in the rapidly growing sector. The ASC maintenance and sustainment facility will come to a standstill as 350 trades and operator support workers take protected industrial action over poor…
Mambers of major trade unions the ETU and AMWU members have hit railway engineering firm UGL’s Newcastle operations as they escalated their dispute over pay. More than 120 workers at the locomotive manufacturing and rail maintenance site at Broadmeadow, Newcastle walked off the job again on Friday to fight for fair pay, according to a…