BHP has bowed to union pressure by agreeing to thrash out a new enterprise agreement covering more than 400 workers at its WA iron ore port.

The Australian Workers Union, on behalf of its informal partnership with the Mining and Energy Union called the Western Mine Workers Alliance, said 74 per cent of the workforce under its remit at BHP’s Port Hedland export gateway signed a petition to bargain for a new agreement.

“In a further development, the Fair Work Commission recently advised BHP that both the Electrical Trades Union and the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union may hold majority support for the maintenance and electrical workforce at the same site,” the AWU stated on Wednesday.

BHP plans to potentially consolidate the separate union bargaining actions into one enterprise agr

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