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Workers score win

More than 100 Banana Shire Council workers will receive a 15 per cent wage increase over three years as part of a new EBA struck last week following some industrial action.
By Karen Simmons

After months of "frustrating negotiations" about 100 Combined Unions' members participated in unprecedented industrial action across the Banana Shire and […]

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