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Melissa Meehan

Paper mill worker lockout ends after pay deal clinched

Native timber harvesting in Victoria's state forests ended in January 2024. (Adrian Black/AAP PHOTOS)

Hundreds of paper mill production staff will return to work after a tense pay dispute locked them out of their workplace for more than a month.

Opal Australian Paper indefinitely stood-down more than 300 workers without pay from the Latrobe Valley's Maryvale mill after seven production staff took a protected six-hour stoppage in January.

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