Latrobe Valley Express 19.04.06
• 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 | Court Transcript

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Latrobe Valley Express 5.03.07
• 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

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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

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GTLC Media Release 21.02.07

• MEC - History of Deceit

The Gippsland Trades and Labour Council calls on both State and Federal Government to change legislation...more

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Latobe Valley Express 18.01.07

• 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

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GTLC Newsletter No3 28.11.06

• Yallourn Workshop Embassy News
  

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Latrobe Valley Express 6.11.06

• 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

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Green Left Weekly 8.11.06
by Sue Bolton

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

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Latrobe Valley Express 26.10.06

• 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

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GTLC Newsletter No 2 23.10.06

• Yallourn Workshop Embassy News
  

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Latrobe Valley Express 16.10.06

• 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

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Latrobe Valley Express 2.10.06

• 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

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GTLC Newsletter No1 21.09.07

• Yallourn Embassy Workshop News
  

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GTLC Media Release 18.09.06

• 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

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Latrobe Valley Express 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

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