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Skills shortage drives up wagesI get sick of hearing about the skills shortage, I have an MC Licence, Haul truck ticket and many more and have applied for over 350 jobs in the mines without a single call. I have had my Resume done to (mine standards) I am applying for anything to get a foot in the door. I have spoken to many recruitment agencies and they (many different...
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31 construction workers shot dead in Papua, IndonesiaThis is truly a tragic incident. After working in Indonesia for a decade or more...this is one of the worst cases of violence I have heard of.... My regrets to those lives that were lost.... I have spent a lot of time in Irian Jaya, but never anything like this happened... Robert Donald Bieber, 06/12/18
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Skills shortage drives up wages
Wage growth I gather is on average 3% this year. This follows several years of 0% wage growth in the past. 3% growth after 2-3 years of 0% growth means people have gone backward. After all inflation is running at 1.5% each year for the past several years. 1.5% each year over 3 years is 6% in total and that means what you buy has gone up by...
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ERMS Blacklist WhatsApp Group Set Up By WattElectricalNewsI am curious if anyone has paid the money to cited.com.au ( enable) to get their ERMS report? Was it just vanilla information, that has been selectively massaged? I also am curious if anyone has actually asked them ( enable) to remove their information? If so, did it actually get improve their chances of employment? Tyson, 05/12/18
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RCR Tomlinson collapse highlights subcontractor crisisThis is where the over paid MD's etc running the companies should do jail time as they are the ones signing off the tenders. RCR will take dozens of smaller companies with them due to non payment. That then includes all these companies employees. The sad part is that there will be another company that will take over the work at a low...
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Households trade solar tokens in new online marketplaceAt last. The government controlled feed in tariff system approaches being obsolete. Let's hope this leads to a more equitable system in the future. John Leinster, 25/11/18
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'Scandal': NSW coal power plants will kill thousands before they closeWe have been using coal power since 1882,when Thomas Edison built the first central power station in New York . In Australia we have been using coal for over 100 years and coal currently accounts for over 70 per cent of Australia's electric power. With none of the detrimental effects upon the human body that fluoride places.So if people...
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'Scandal': NSW coal power plants will kill thousands before they close
Sounds like Greeny propaganda. I would believe that overseas Power stations are much cleaner. They are much newer. Greenies won't let us build new clean efficient coal fired power stations. Andrew, 26/11/18
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Origin to take demand management trial national, after “significant” success in SAAs a 3 decade worker in a coal fired power station I have seen much of the goings-on in the electricity market. I am astounded that this sort of thing is only now being trailed. Is South Australia the only part of Australia where there is someone awake. More power to you Origin. John Leinster, 26/11/18
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ERMS Blacklist explainedI’ve heard a couple of things. Apparently you can pay $80 or something to have it wiped / cleared. Apparently some mates have done that a while back. If anyone knows exactly how, that'd be great for everyone who has been unfairly put on it. I’ve also heard you can get the union to stop companies accessing your information. I...
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Have you been a victim of ERMS – a secret blacklist preventing some people getting jobs?Hi all, I appreciate Wattelectricalnews making this page for me it's been the only real information that isn't written by some HR person somewhere. It's even some what comforting to know that it's just not me that has been dealing with a very similar story. A story that has seen my three children go with out birthdays or have...
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Have you been a victim of ERMS – a secret blacklist preventing some people getting jobs?
Hi, I may or may not be on this so called blacklist but I did take a tumble on a mine site waste dump! (on there doing my job)it happened some years ago I managed to tear my tendon away from my shoulder I reported it straight away but because there was no follow up on it I put up with it for about six months thinking it may get better but of...
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WA engineers set to miss out on $900m of LNG workThis cannot be allowed to happen. Surely we have the Engineering skills in this country to cover all the work. Plus it would help to train up young Australian engineers as well, for the future of the industry here. Greg Parker, 17/10/18
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The challenges of being a FIFO parentYes so true agree with all written above . Having done the fifo gig and hoping to avoid in the future. I do believe in never say never but fingers crossed I hope I will avoid the fifo game in the future The others never seem to understand the challenges thinking you having great time avoiding screaming kids. Peter K, 15/10/18
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Miner wants workplace agreement axed for more ‘efficient’ termsIf the workplace agreement is lost, the workers will lose for the rest of their working lives. Rio Tinto workers lost their workplace agreement and they are one of the lowest paid mine workers in the Pilbara. 2018 the company made over 7 billion and the workers got a 10% cut on their bonus. A Rio fixed plant operator bonus is approx 4,750 net...