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MEC Yallourn Dispute

Federal Court Win

The AMWU has scored a Federal court win against the Latrobe Valley engineering firm, MES. The firm must now pay the workers it
sacked earlier this year $400,000 in reduncancy pay......more

OK fellas, lets's go home

Former employees at Mechanical Engineering Corporation's (MEC) Yallourn workshop left the site at the weekend after a 277 day protest...more
Community Assembly to stand up to violent employer

Protesters were lucky to escape with their lives on Friday 4th May as a truck driven by Anthony Eliott rammed a community protest at Eliott Engineering in the Melbourne suburb of Kilsyth, in full view of the police....More

10.05.07
Court backs former workers' right to protest
Standing Firm

A court bid by Mechanical Engineering Corporation to ban former employees from protesting outside the company's Yallourn Workshop has failed...More
Latrobe Valley Express 19.04.06

Court Transcript
How did MEC set up in the Valley?
Council Incentives

Latrobe City Council helped Mechanical Engineering Corporation (MEC) establish its Yallourn workshop it has been revealed...More
Latrobe Valley Express 5.03.07
MEC workers: six month lock-out

The 49 locked out workers from Elliott group's MEC Engineering continue to maintain a six-month 'protest embassy' to fight for their jobs and entitlements...more
Union Solidarity 26.02.07
MEC - History of Deceit

The Gippsland Trades and Labour Council calls on both State and Federal Government to change legislation...more
GTLC Media Release 21.02.07
MEC employees left with difficult decision
Sign Up or Leave

Employees locked out of Mechanical Engineering Corporation's Yallourn workshop will be forced to return to work under individual contracts or they may lose their jobs permanently...more
Latobe Valley Express 18.01.07
Yallourn Workshop Embassy News

GTLC Newsletter No3 28.11.06
Workers, MES refuse to budge in industrial row
Dispute Stalemate

The industrial dispute at Mechanical Engineering Services' Yallourn workshop has been labeled a 'ping pong' match after workers were again locked out on friday...more
Latrobe Valley Express 6.11.06
Locked out Yallourn workers need solidarity

Forty-nine workers at the largest workshop in the Latrobe Valley have been locked out for almost three months by Mechanical Engineering Services (MES). As soon has he'd locked out the workers, the company owner, Anthony Elliot, went overseas for several weeks...more
Sue Bolton, Green Left Weekly 8.11.06
Workers turn tables on workshop dispute

Workers at the Mechanical Engineering Services workshop in Yallourn have defied an order to return to work and are now out on strike...more
Latrobe Valley Express 26.10.06
Yallourn Workshop Embassy News

GTLC Newsletter No 2 23.10.06
Unions hope for MEC peace deal

Workers locked out of their Yallourn workshop by engineering firm MEC were hopeful of a resolution today, with union and company representatives due to enter discussions at 3pm...more
Latrobe Valley Express 16.10.06
Union passes the hat around for workers

A community support fund has been established for Yallourn workers locked out of the MEC workshop for the next three months...more
Latrobe Valley Express 2.10.06
Yallourn Embassy Workshop News

GTLC Newsletter No1 21.09.07
Howard's Treacherous IR Laws Used Against Gippsland Workers
48 Workers Locked Out

The Gippsland Trades and Labour Council Secretary, John Parker, has described the locking out of 48 workers for 3 months by Mechanical Engineering Services as un-Australian...more
GTLC Media Release 18.09.06
Employees maintain a vigil at Yallourn workshop

Workers continued to defy a three month lock-out at Mechanical Engineering Corporation's workshop at Yallourn by maintaining their protest at the company's gates this morning...more
Latrobe Valley Express 18.09.06
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