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Union asks for unarmed security at German Creek

THE Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union has written to Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani seeking assurances that proposed security guards the company may employ at the German Creek coal mine near Middlemount, Queensland, would not be armed and would not follow or harass workers involved in protected industrial action on site.

Lou Caruana
Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani.

Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani.

In the letter to Cutifani, the CFMEU asked for an assurance that “drastic tactics” were not going to be used. Anglo American said in a statement: “The CFMEU appears to want to create headlines as opposed...

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