Port Kembla Coal Terminal workers have been locked out - for the third time in a row.
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The workers were due to return at 7am today, following two separate nine-day lockouts by the company stretching back to February 18.
The third straight lockout means workers won't return until March 18 at the earliest.
In the notice of lockout sent to the coal terminal employees the lockout is in response to a review of "the level of disruptions to the operations of recent protected industrial action".
However, workers have not walked out on strike since February 15, and CFMEU southern district vice president Bob Timbs said the union had sent no notifications of industrial action since that time.
Combined with earlier strike action by workers and previous lockouts, they've not turned up for work since January 18.
By the end of this latest lockout it means the coal terminal workers wouldn't have been onsite for 59 days.