Port Kembla coal terminal launches unprecedented lockout to counter CFMEU threat

By David Marin-Guzman
Updated January 8 2018 - 10:27am, first published 10:02am
"I've been telling my employees now for many, many months it is absolutely critical for our business to right now set up the safe, sustainable operation of PKCT so it's here in the long term," says John Gorman, operations manager at the Port Kembla Coal Terminal. Picture: Sylvia Liber
"I've been telling my employees now for many, many months it is absolutely critical for our business to right now set up the safe, sustainable operation of PKCT so it's here in the long term," says John Gorman, operations manager at the Port Kembla Coal Terminal. Picture: Sylvia Liber

The Port Kembla Coal Terminal has locked out its workers for the first time in its history as it seeks to pressure the mining union to end a three-year battle to remove restrictions on management.

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