Mine workers at Tahmoor Colliery south of Sydney will resume industrial action for a week from tomorrow after Xstrata point blank refused an offer to resolve the current EA dispute through arbitration.

The Union offered the company an arrangement where we would suspend all industrial action and abide by an arbitrator’s decision on all outstanding matters.

These include:

• security of employment
• the company’s ability to roster workers on to 12-hour shifts
• remuneration and bonuses and
• manning levels.

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It’s hot, there are flies, and we’re all sick of sausages – but morale amongst the coalminers here at Tahmoor is higher than ever.

Picket: Strength in numbers

We’ve been locked out since Monday night, but we’re determined to keep fighting until our Xstrata managers sit down with our union representatives and negotiate a fair agreement.

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Truck off: a tribute to Xstrata

Tahmoor miners have created a mobile tribute to everyone’s favourite mining multinational.

It made is first appearance today as the day and afternoon shifts took protected industrial action. Night shift will follow suit Sunday night. 

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It looks like it.

Management have notified us they will start training a team of guys from a Wollongong contracting company, to load coal on to trains here at Tahmoor.

They set off yesterday to Ulan mine in Mudgee for training.

As part of our campaign of protected industrial action to protect our job security, we have had a ban on loading trains for the past two weeks.

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Down here at Tahmoor, we challenge mine owners Xstrata to be honest about why they’re going so hard after the job security protections in our agreement – like seniority, return to work and manning levels. 
 


We are all deeply concerned at the prospect operations at Tahmoor will be contracted out.

When we saw this article the Illawarra Mercury last week, alarm bells rang. 

What the?: UGM Managers standing on the stockpile at Tahmoor.

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