MINERS could walk off the job for a week at BMA’s seven Bowen Basin sites.
Last week, mass meetings of coal miners endorsed a week-long shutdown, and union officials are now meeting to decide how the strike will play out. It follows a 15-month bitter long enterprise bargaining dispute between the company and the unions. THEY have come from all corners of the world, and they now call the Bowen Basin mining town of Moranbah home.
Dyno Nobel’s 80-strong permanent workforce at its new ammonium nitrate plant will all live locally in homes built by the company. In fact, 73 of the houses are now built, and the rest will be finished by the end of the month, as the plant edges towards full commissioning later this year. AS the skills crisis tightens its grip on central Queensland, Gladstone businesses are being urged to get HR savvy if they want to recruit and retain staff.
The Gladstone Engineering Alliance (GEA) will invest $100,000 to help those small and medium businesses who are struggling with HR issues. “GEA and other organisations in the region have been inundated by members who are needing and seeking support in helping recruit and retain,” said GEA project officer Kaihla Dennis.
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