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TWENTY-two jobs are to go at a North-West veneer mill. Workers at Gunns’ Somerset site have been asked to nominate for voluntary redundancies by Wednesday. If too few of the 50-odd workers put their hands up, then some will be “tapped on the shoulder”. Gunns could not be contacted for comment yesterday, but a union official confirmed what The Advocate had learned. Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union state secretary Scott McLean said the company was cutting its workforce from three shifts to two. A downturn in demand was blamed for the decision, Mr McLean said, but Gunns had so far been fair. Read more here
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22 jobs to go at Gunns’ NW veneer mill. 12:00 AM AEST | TWENTY-two jobs are to go at a North-West veneer mill. Workers at Gunns’ Somerset site have been asked to nominate for voluntary redundancies by Wednesday. If too few of the 50-odd workers p…
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TWO members of a government-appointed pulp industry panel will be paid $657 a day, the Senate has heard. Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) national assistant secretary Michael O’Connor, a former Labor Party national executive member, and Australian Paper executive general manager Jim Henneberry will be given remuneration tribunal rates to act as deputy co-chairs. The Pulp and Paper Industry Strategy Group includes Gunns Limited executive chairman John Gay, whose firm has been given Federal Government approval to build a pulp mill in Tasmania’s Tamar Valley.
Taxpayers will pay his travel costs, along with 11 other panel members drawn from the pulp and forestry industries and trade unions.
Australian Greens leader Bob Brown said the absence of an environmental advocate from the panel, announced by Industry Minister Kim Carr last week, was disappointing.
“This is the Rudd Government using taxpayers’ funds for industry lobbyists to draw up a lobbying plan to government to get access to taxpayers’ funds,” Senator Brown said. Read more here
