"Australian workers win ExxonMobil strike after 742 days on picket line", 29 July 2019

On July 11, 2019 oil and gas workers in Victoria, Australia, dismantled their picket line after 742 days, following an agreement ending a long-running dispute with ExxonMobil and its maintenance subcontractor, UGL...

...The protest...began...when a number of...maintenance workers at ExxonMobil’s Esso subsidiary...refused to accept a new contract...The agreement slashed wages by 40%, proposed grueling anti-family shifts, and left workers unpaid if they had to stop work due to technical problems...

 ...Now, IndustriALL Global Union-affiliated trade unions in Australia...have reached an agreement with ExxonMobil and UGL which will ensure that the sham contract is not used on any other site in Australia...

...unions have forced UGL into agreeing to re-negotiate for a union-ratified collective agreement where the sham agreement has been used to date....

 ...Troy Carter, a leading union campaigner...said: “...ExxonMobil is one of the biggest companies in the world, yet it couldn’t get rid of a picket line of nine trade unionists. This is a very important moment for unionists worldwide in demonstrating that we are ready to stand up and fight multinational companies against union busting.”