Our little ship of fools isn’t getting time off after all:
The union representing tugboat engineers has called off a planned strike at Port Hedland this weekend after realising they had made a mistake in issuing its industrial notices.
It is a spectacular blunder for the union, which had hoped to raise the stakes in a protracted pay dispute with BHP Billiton shipping contractor Teekay Shipping.
The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers believed they could issue strike notices on shipping contractor Teekay Shipping as late as Tuesday.
