Article: NSW: Boeing workers vote in collective agreement, union out in cold


AAP General News (Australia)
10-26-2006
NSW: Boeing workers vote in collective agreement, union out in cold

By Simon Kirby

SYDNEY, Oct 26 AAP - Workers at the site of one of NSW's longest-running industrial
disputes today overwhelmingly accepted a collective agreement developed with no union
input.

More than 500 Boeing maintenance staff from three airforce sites - Williamtown in NSW
and Amberley and Oakey in Queensland - voted in the two-day ballot, with 94 per cent voting
in favour of the new agreement.

Last February, 25 Boeing workers who repair and maintain the RAAF's F/A-18 Hornet jet
fighters at the Williamtown RAAF base were ordered back to work after nine months on the
picket ...

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