SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s labour regulator has issued an order allowing a workers union to conduct a protected action ballot of employees over a planned strike at Chevron’s Wheatstone and Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities.
The Fair Work Commission in the order dated Thursday said the union can hold a protected action ballot of employees on any decisions over a industrial action.
Chevron and Woodside Energy Group have been holding talks with unions to avert threatened strikes over pay and conditions at Australian facilities that together supply about 10% of the LNG market.
(Reporting by Renju Jose in Sydney; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
