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Planned strike at Victoria's Loy Yang power station called off

Thursday, 15 Dec 2016 09:04:34 | Kellie Lazzaro And Patrick Wright

Workers at the Latrobe Valley's biggest power generator have voted to take industrial action next week if their demands for a 35-hour-work week are not granted. (ABC News: Peter Giafis)

A planned 24-hour strike at Victoria's Loy Yang A power station over the Christmas and New Year period has been called off by the union.

The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) had notified AGL, the station's owner, it planned to hold protected industrial action on December 28.

The union had said the strike could force the shutdown of four generating units at the power station for 24 hours.

The brown-coal-fired power plant provides about a third of Victoria's energy needs.

AGL countered the union by threatening to lock out workers at the power station and the mine, which also supplies coal to the nearby Loy Yang B station.

Not long after the company said the CFMEU had called off the strike.

The Hazelwood power station, another brown-coal-fired plant in the Latrobe Valley, is closing in March but will still be operational over the Christmas-New Year period.

The dispute over wages and conditions of more than 500 workers at Loy Yang A has dragged on for the past 18 months.

A CFMEU spokesman said the most recent offer put to workers was rejected because it reduced staff numbers at the station, especially on weekends.

AGL said union members working at Loy Yang A had "twice rejected generous pay rises of more than 20 per cent, preservation of generous work benefits and job security in the form of no forced redundancies".

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