Mine bosses call for workplace laws to restrict union entry

March 4, 2017
Issue 

The Australian Mines and Metals Association (AMMA) has launched a video campaign demanding the federal government change workplace laws to restrict union entry into workplaces. The animated video depicts union representatives disrupting work on resource projects.

AMMA chief executive Steve Knott has also written to key senators and members of parliament, highlighting the “absurd costs, delays, productivity impacts and safety issues associated with the thousands of site entry requests resource employers now receive each year”.

He said proposed workplace law changes identified last year by 100 leading resource companies were yet to be acted on by federal parliament.

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