ABITTER long-running industrial dispute involving a Gee-long, Vic., wool scour and carbonising plant and the small Victorian-based Shearers and Rural Workers Union (SRWU) finally ended last month. The wool scour, E.P. Robinson, rather than face a lengthy and potentially costly unfair dismissal hearing before Melbourne's Industrial Court, agreed to an undisclosed, out-of-court settlement with the SRWU involving 19 former employees of the plant. The saga, which began in February over a right-of-entry dispute by the SRWU, demonstrates that there are no winners when two sides become locked in a protracted and bitter industrial dispute.
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