FMG laying off about 200 workers over the last 2 days, page-16

Oze

Facts not crap, public servants work under the same Super as everyone else does and only those on the old scheme retire at 55, same entiltement as the old scheme for other workers.
Public servants good wages, about 70000 average public servant and being offered a 1% pay rise, what is the wage for a mine worker and what was the last payrise for them.

I can remember being up in the coal mines about 5 years ago and going through wage negotiations, we were offered 14% plus a 6000 sign bonus and we knocked it back and started strikes, ended up with a bit better, 145000 being the average. Good times until things went bad, coal price dropped people put off, mine eventually closed.

it goes to the old saying make hay while the sun shines, good wages whilst it is all go but stop the whinging when things turn.