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A court hearing into Svitzer’s bid to slash workers’ wages by up to 50 percent has been delayed to prevent more strikes in the lead-up to next month’s Labor government “Jobs and Skills Summit.”
The unions have responded to the company’s attempts to slash wages and conditions by shutting down strikes and attempting to divert workers’ struggles into appeals to the “moral values” of Svitzer and its parent company.
Determined to drive through a regressive new deal, Australia’s largest tugboat operator is threatening to terminate the existing enterprise agreement covering workers.