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re: News: BHP Billiton warns over looming str... Spuza
Your post is totally one sided with no research done on "actual pay and conditions"
Im not sure either what you do for a career but if you enjoy any of the following you have UNIONS to thank not CEOs:

Superannuation
Workers comp
Sick leave
Annual leave
38 hour week
Workplace safety
sick leave

Try reading the MUA rebuttal of your "Murdoch inspired newspaper headlines" for a more balanced view of what these guys actually do.

PUBLIC MISLED OVER PORT HEDLAND TUGBOAT DECKHAND WORKING HOURS

The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has slammed industry and the Federal Government for misleading the public over the working hours of tugboat deckhands in Port Hedland.



Over the course of a year, tugboat workers work six swings of 28 days, at an average of 12 hours a day, and sometimes up to 20 hours a day, depending on the volume of iron ore going through the Port.



The average tugboat worker works 2,016 hours per year, which equates to almost 54 weeks of a standard 37.5 hour working week, such as people might earn if they worked in the Perth offices of BHP Billiton.



Both industry and the Federal Government are trying to create the impression that these deckhands work only a fraction of the year, in an attempt to portray the MUA as unreasonable and justify a political attack on the union and Australia's industrial relations laws.



By misleading the public over the nature of the work performed by these workers, both industry and the Federal Government are showing no respect for the hard work and sacrifice of these workers and their families.