Unions ramp up attacks on mining sector amid calls to re-unionise Pilbara

Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login The Australian Workers Union wants to leverage Labor’s revived industrial relations agenda to re-unionise mine workers in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, and is dialling up pressure on big resources companies and the Albanese government ahead of looming state and federal elections. AWU national secretary Paul Farrow launched a broadside on Rio Tinto and BHP ahead of the union’s national conference in Perth on Monday, accusing the mining giants of “sooking” over enterprise bargaining and provoking “political extremism” in blue-collar workers.

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