Booyong Pork worker hospitalised after serious safety breach
A young visa worker has been hospitalised after their arm was trapped in a machine on the slaughter floor at Booyong Pork, operated by the Northern Co-operative Meat Company. The…
Workplace Incident At JBS Scone
The AMIEU can today confirm that one of our members, a hide puller operator named Shayne Crowfoot, was injured in a workplace accident today at JBS Scone. The operator was…
Health and Safety: 5 Tips For A Safe Workplace
1. Don’t let your boss off the hook As meat workers we know how dangerous our job can be. We work with dangerous, heavy machinery in a close, tight, fast-paced…
Working in the heat: Know the facts
As we come into the worst of the long, hot Australian summer, many meat workers will now be sweating it out in uncomfortable temperatures. But these temperatures can be more…
Q-Fever: How one meat worker nearly lost her son to this preventable disease
We’ve written before about the dangers of Q-fever, and the urgent need for the Government to put more money towards detection, vaccination and prevention of this terrible illness. Despite campaigning…
Baiada Beresfield Chlorine Dioxide Incident: Our Investigation Report
The AMIEU Newcastle & Northern NSW Branch has completed our investigation into the Baiada Beresfield chlorine dioxide incident of Monday March 7 2016, where 40 workers were hospitalised following exposure…
Lives, not just jobs: Government and employers must fund Q fever vaccinations
Q fever: It’s something that every meat worker should know and fear, but many people in Australia have no idea even exists. It has a mortality rate of 10%. If…