The US giant has told the Fair Work Commission that escalating work stoppages on its Wheatstone gas platform pose a real threat to the WA domestic market.
Chevron will seek an enforced arbitration with unions at its two huge Western Australian LNG plants after tense negotiations collapsed, claiming weeks of escalating strikes pose a threat to the state’s gas supply.
Between them, Gorgon and Wheatstone account for about 7 per cent of global LNG supply and 47 per cent of WA’s gas supply, but production is understood to be continuing unaffected so far, despite the stoppages which started on Friday. “Given we consider there is no reasonable prospect of agreement, we will now apply for intractable bargaining declarations for Gorgon and Wheatstone downstream,” he said.
It argues the union’s rejection of its latest offer, which includes a commitment to not replace employees with contractors and have no roster changes without agreement, shows there is no hope for an agreement without a circuit breaker.
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