QLD: Miners have not ruled out further industrial action
By Chris Herde
BRISBANE, Aug 13 AAP - Angry miners have not ruled out further industrial action afterlabelling a report into the events leading up to a Queensland-wide strike by coal minersa whitewash.
Miners have claimed a privately run Queensland Mines Rescue Service (QMRS) was poorlymanaged, misrepresented mine injury data and short-staffed.
Their union called a snap 24-hour strike last week after a phone call to the service'sBlackwater station in central Queensland went unanswered.
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union safety and health representative SteveSmyth said there would be a meeting tomorrow in Brisbane of unionists, QMRS, the governmentand the Queensland Mining Council.
"I suppose unless there are some guarantees and outcomes in the meeting, the unionwill sit back and consider their options," he said.
"Not going to work until they were sure there's a system in place is one of them."
An independent report into the incident last Monday week at Blackwater called for acomprehensive review of the emergency call-out system.
But Mr Smyth said the report did not address the issues and labelled it a "whitewash".
"They were trying to blame it on a glitch in the system," he said.
"The big thing was we were given a commitment that the Blackwater Station would havebeen staffed and they were not there."
AAP ch/cjm/jlw
KEYWORD: MINERS
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