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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Ian Kirkwood

Hunter mining communities $250 million a year worse off because of lower casual mineworker wages

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LABOUR-HIRE "wage-cutting" is stripping $250 million a year out of the Paterson and Hunter electorates, a new report commissioned by the Mining and Energy Union has found.

The union's national president, Tony Maher, said yesterday that with export coal earnings forecast to top $100 billion this year, coal companies were still "aggressively" using casual employment to cut wages.

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