[Chimerica]

70 Filipinos have kept their jobs in the Pilbaba while 54 Aussies have been retrenched.

The company is Chinese owned.

This is BIG, gonna cause waves across the mining industry.


http://www.news.com....i-1225835912621

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Fury as migrant workers keep jobs

<LI class="source first ">From: The Australian
• March 02, 2010 8:39AM

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An industrial dispute is brewing in the Pilbara / File Source: The Australian

INDUSTRIAL tensions in the Pilbara are escalating after an engineering contractor sacked 54 Australian workers at a $5.2 billion Chinese-owned iron ore project while retaining up to 70 Filipinos with similar skills.

The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union will today meet representatives of the Adelaide-based Ottoway Engineering in a bid to find out why migrant workers are apparently being favoured ahead of locals at Citic Pacific's mine at Cape Preston, near Karratha, The Australian reports.

The AMWU says the Australian workers were "irate" after being told last week they had been retrenched.

The controversy adds to weeks of mounting industrial friction in the region, with workers at Woodside's $12bn Pluto gas project walking off the job last month in protest against their accommodation arrangements.

[Bernard L. Madoff]

You let Chinese companies operate mines and American companies operate Gas fields (Gorgon) and there is a sense of surprise they go for the cheapest worker regardless of nationality. WTF did anyone expect?

[tom]

Chimerica, on 02 March 2010 - 05:45 AM, said:

70 Filipinos have kept their jobs in the Pilbaba while 54 Aussies have been retrenched.

The company is Chinese owned.

This is BIG, gonna cause waves across the mining industry.


http://www.news.com....i-1225835912621

The company retrenching the workers is not Chinese owned.

http://www.ottowayengineering.com.au/

The mine is Chinese Owned but it is unlikely Citic Pacific has anything to do with who Ottoway chooses to keep and who they choose to retrench. I doubt Ottoway is even working directly for Citic Pacific.

[Bernard L. Madoff]

tom, on 02 March 2010 - 06:05 AM, said:

The company retrenching the workers is not Chinese owned.

http://www.ottowayengineering.com.au/

The mine is Chinese Owned but it is unlikely Citic Pacific has anything to do with who Ottoway chooses to keep and who they choose to retrench. I doubt Ottoway is even working directly for Citic Pacific.

Just like a buddy of mine who earns $5000/week working for Chevron (Gorgon) as a Geophysical Surveyor doesn't work for Chevron, he sub - contracts to a firm that contracts to Chevron. He knows who the master is.