While sacked workers fight on ...
While Rio Tinto leads the charge to cut mineworkers' wages and destroy their rights and conditions, there was no shortage of money for its retiring chief executive officer Leon Davis. He was rewarded with an obscene $16,000,000 payout for leading his company's attacks on trade unions, cuts to workers' wages and conditions, mass sackings, human rights violations, and environmental destruction around the world. "It would take a miner earning $85,000 a year more than 188 years to reach Davis' payout!", said CFMEU Mining and Energy Division General President Tony Maher. Every cent of Davis' $60 million payout has come from the sweat and hard labour of workers, many of them in the most hazardous conditions — workers he accuses of being overpaid!