SA: Strike ends at car component producer

AAP General News (Australia)
02-11-2000
SA: Strike ends at car component producer

Negotitations have averted a threatened shutdown of Australia's automotive industry
and the stand-down of thousands of workers.

The Australian Workers Union says a pay dispute with the Victorian component maker has ended.

About 220 workers at Ajax Fasteners have voted to accept a three per cent wage rise,
the result of a compromise hammered out in the Industrial Relations Commission.

The workers had wanted four per cent and the company had previously offered two --
prompting members of AWU and the Australian Manufacturers Workers Union to walk off the
job about 10 days ago.

AWU state secretary BILL SHORTEN says the vote represents a good win for the workers,
who he says were frustrated by the refusal of the company to budge on its offer in earlier
talks.

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