The NSW CFMEU stands in solidarity with maritime workers after the MUA caught GrainCorp Limited scoping out a scab workforce for its Port of Newcastle operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The MUA says GrainCorp has secretly brought in a contract labour hire company to assess the suitability for a takeover by a scab workforce while purporting to be negotiating in good faith with the union to renew the existing Employment Agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Newcastle MUA branch Secretary, Glen Williams, said the company’s behaviour was “nothing short of disgusting”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey posted a record profit during the first half of this year, with a net profit after tax of $246 million, and their first action is to train up scabs and develop a plan to lock out their existing workforce,\u201d Mr Williams said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MUA: GrainCorp scopes out scab workforce for Newcastle Port<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Darren Greenfield, CFMEU NSW Secretary<\/strong> said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The NSW CFMEU stands in solidarity with maritime workers and the Newcastle branch of the MUA in their dispute with GrainCorp.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Workers at the Port of Newcastle should not face the risk of a scab workforce taking their jobs while they and their union are negotiating with GrainCorp to secure the wages and conditions they deserve.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “GrainCorp needs to come clean with workers and the community of Newcastle about their plans. The company should return to goodfaith negotiations with the MUA and take the threat of a scab workforce off the table.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NSW CFMEU stands in solidarity with maritime workers after the MUA caught GrainCorp Limited scoping out a scab workforce for its Port of Newcastle operations. The MUA says GrainCorp has secretly brought in a contract labour hire company to assess the suitability for a takeover by a scab workforce while purporting to be negotiating … Continue reading “NSW CFMEU stands in solidarity with Newcastle workers & MUA\u00a0“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17426,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425\/revisions\/17426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}