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Rio ineptitude seen in jobs sackingsDate: 07 April 2009
The Australian Workers Union has slammed the Rio Tinto Board for once again demonstrating their incompetent decision-making processes with the retrenchment of nearly 700 Queensland workers.
Not looking at the best long-term interests of the company" Rather than look at what is in the best interests of the company in the long-term they have adopted a stance which can only result in lost opportunities- as they lose the skills and commitment of their workforce . " Rio Tinto has run true to form - demonstrating the Board's incompetence and ineptitude," Paul Howes said. Gov't should look at this poor performance before green-lighting Chinalco investment
The Federal Government needs to look closely at the structure of the Board as a real problem, when they consider green-lighting the proposals by Chinalco to invest in Rio Tinto. Mr Howes said the Rio Tinto workforce, and their families, deserved a little more respect than for many of them to hear through the media that hundreds will be losing their jobs, just as Easter is about to start. No consultation about possible alternatives
" Neither our members, or their union, were consulted about this shocking news. " Decency would have demanded that at least the retrenchments would be discussed first - and maybe alternative scenarios offered," Paul Howes, AWU National Secretary, said. " We've got members in Gladstone who have been told that one-in-three of you will go, but no one at the moment knows if they've lost a job, or if it is there mate. Not a nice way to go into Easter!" Read earlier comment by Paul Howes on Rio Tinto and the Chinalco proposal
For more infoAndrew Casey,AWU National Communications Coordinator, 0417 054 194
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" The price of aluminium is actually recovering now on the London Metals Exchange, but Rio Tinto has adopted a myopic, short-term solution," Paul Howes, AWU National Secretary, said.