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Five years after boom, battle rages over mining wages in Australia
Economists worry widespread cuts to worker incomes will weigh on consumer spending and economic growth
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Wed, Nov 23, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Perth
COAL prices may be recovering, but there are no celebrations in the mining town of Collie, Western Australia, where workers are fighting Indian conglomerate Lanco Infratech over plans to slash their wages almost in half.
The move to cut pay at Lanco's Griffin Coal mine comes five years after the peak of a commodity price boom that saw miners, truck drivers and even cleaners earning six-figure incomes in Australia's remote outback mines and offshore oil and gas fields.
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