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Huntly Power Station, Waikato - Source: ONE News -
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Hundreds of miners returned to work today after ending a month-long industrial dispute with Solid Energy.
Miners and maintenance staff at the company's Huntly East coalmine voted yesterday to accept an 8.5% pay increase, while workers at the Stockton mine voted to accept a national offer which would cover all the company's mines.
The national offer would give workers a 2% pay increase in the first year and 3% in the second, as well as a lump sum of about $2000, with additional provisions specific to each mine.
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union spokesman Rob Egan said miners who had continued to strike in solidarity after earlier accepting the national agreement would also return to work today.
Workers at the Spring Creek mine were yet to formalise the
national agreement but were expected to do so this afternoon, he
says.
