Fed:Boeing workers back at work but jurisdictional brawl raging

AAP General News (Australia)
02-21-2006
Fed:Boeing workers back at work but jurisdictional brawl raging

By Samantha Baden, Industrial Reporter

SYDNEY, Feb 21 AAP - As Boeing workers sign back onto the aviation giant's payroll,
a brawl is raging over which industrial tribunal has jurisdiction in one of Australia's
longest-running workplace disputes.

Twenty-five Boeing workers, who repair and maintain the RAAF's F/A-18 Hornet jet fighters
at the Williamtown RAAF base near Newcastle in NSW, yesterday returned to work after nine
months on the picket line.

The workers are currently undergoing retraining and are expected to resume …