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Article: Vic: Rescue package has averted crisis in car industry: union
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- April 23, 2007
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AAP General News (Australia)
04-23-2007
Vic: Rescue package has averted crisis in car industry: union
By Shelley Markham and Catherine Best
MELBOURNE, April 23 AAP - A manufacturing union says a crisis has been averted in the
Victorian vehicle industry after workers at a troubled car components factory accepted
a $1 million rescue package.
Forty-nine workers at Coghlan and Russell Engineering at Geelong, southwest of Melbourne,
today voted to support the $1 million rescue package, throwing a lifeline to the Victorian
car manufacturing industry, which was threatening to shed hundreds of jobs.
The workers were stood down without pay 10 days ago after the car parts manufacturer
went into ...