FED: Strike action set to go ahead despite court orders

AAP General News (Australia)
01-13-2000
FED: Strike action set to go ahead despite court orders

By Natalie Davison Industrial Reporter

SYDNEY, Jan 12 AAP - Workers walked off the job at BHP's Port Kembla steelworks plant
tonight in an industrial dispute set to worsen.

BHP earlier today accused unions of orchestrating a nation-wide industrial campaign
against the company as 4,000 steel workers made good their threat to down tools tonight.

Workers at BHP's biggest steelworks, at Port Kembla in New South Wales, began walking
off the job at 11.20pm in defiance of a state Industrial Relations Commission order.

Striking steel …