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July 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda About 1500 people have turned out for union rallies in the Pilbara towns of Port Hedland and Karratha in northern Western Australia to demand mining and petroleum jobs for local workers.
The simultaneous rallies were held about midday (WST) on Sunday, with organisers saying about 1000 people had gathered outside the Karratha Shopping Centre and 500 on the Port Hedland waterfront.
The rallies were held by combined unions, led by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), and followed similar protests in Perth and Melbourne almost two weeks ago.
The actions were part of an ongoing campaign opposing plans to import skilled overseas workers for large resources projects.
Gina Rinehart’s privately-owned Hancock Prospecting is the first company to be given the go-ahead to import 1700 workers for its Roy Hill iron ore project in the Pilbara under the federal government’s enterprise migration agreement (EMA) scheme.
MUA WA branch secretary Chris Cain told AAP from Karratha that the unions were not opposed to foreign labour, but believed Australian workers should be given first preference.
He said companies and successive governments had not done enough to train local workers to fill skills shortages in the oil, gas and mining sectors, and shouldn’t use that as an excuse to import cheap labour.
Mr Cain said the campaign would continue, with further actions planned.
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