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Speaker 1: Now, yesterday you may have seen in the NT News

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Speaker 1: that it was being reported that Western Australian based Mining

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Speaker 1: Services one of the providers. I don't know exactly what

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Speaker 1: they're called, but they're going to be taking control of

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Speaker 1: impexes seventy five million dollars a year on shore maintenance

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Speaker 1: contract under a deal which has been flagged earlier this week.

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Speaker 1: So about four hundred employees at the IMPEX Middle Arm

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Speaker 1: LNG processing plant are going to change next month, so

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Speaker 1: their bosses will change next month if this proposed amendment

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Speaker 1: to impexes on shore maintenance contract goes ahead. Now joining

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Speaker 1: us on the line is well from the Electrical Trade

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Speaker 1: Union Strawbs, Dave Hayes. Good morning to your Strawbs. Hang on,

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Speaker 1: let's try that again. Good morning Strawbs.

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Speaker 2: Good MORNINGTI.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good mate, Thanks so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 1: Now what's the latest with these four hundred odd employees

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Speaker 1: out at IMPEX.

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Speaker 2: Look, Katie, we've been notified yesterday and so as the

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Speaker 2: stock exchange of a change in maintenance provider out at

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Speaker 2: the impact facility out there at Blading Point. So Monadelphus

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Speaker 2: will now be taking over the maintenance contract from the

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Speaker 2: twenty third and November. Monadelphus also do the maintenance. They

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Speaker 2: hold the maintenance contracts out on the offshore facility, so

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Speaker 2: they'll now be the main maintenance contractor across all the

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Speaker 2: impect facilities. So it effects probably about three hund and

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Speaker 2: fifty odd employees, so they'd be two one hundred.

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Speaker 3: And fifty blue collar and probably about one hundred white

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Speaker 3: collar in the midst And now they now have the

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Speaker 3: opportunity to put in expressions of interest with Monadelphus and

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Speaker 3: hopefully the majority of them just have a simple shirt

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Speaker 3: change and move across to the new contract to given

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Speaker 3: the skills and the expertise they have in running that

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Speaker 3: major has a facility out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, so any word strows on why this contract

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Speaker 1: changed hands.

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Speaker 2: So, look, Impacts have been undertaking, you know, there's been

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Speaker 2: some murmurs for some time. Impacts have been undertaking a

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Speaker 2: review of their sort of maintenance delivery and their contraction structures,

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Speaker 2: and they're obviously looking for more efficiencies in the way

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Speaker 2: they operate their business, and they see having the the

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Speaker 2: one maintenance contractor across all their facilities will allow them

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Speaker 2: a more streamline, efficient and safe approach to operate their

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Speaker 2: facilities out.

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Speaker 1: There, and so from your perspective, it is hopefully just

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Speaker 1: going to mean that these employees do just shift across

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Speaker 1: and as you said, have a shirt change and and

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Speaker 1: they you know, they change, will their bosses change, I

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Speaker 1: guess for one of a better word.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there is there is some some bits and places

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Speaker 2: we have to deal with, Katie. There's a proposed roster

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Speaker 2: change out there. So currently the majority of maintenance employees

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Speaker 2: work K five on five off, seven on four off

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Speaker 2: roster or two and two roster impacts are now saying

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Speaker 2: they're going to go to a Monday to Friday work arrangement.

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Speaker 2: So we've got to work through that and how their

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Speaker 2: ammuneration and things like that tie into all that change.

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Speaker 2: We'd be looking if they're going down that path, definitely

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Speaker 2: for a nine day, fortnight sort of scenario, if that's

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Speaker 2: where they're going to head.

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Speaker 3: So we've got to work through a.

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Speaker 2: Bit of those bits and pieces and a few of

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Speaker 2: the read between the lines on a few things. But

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Speaker 2: in general, they they have let us know that they

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Speaker 2: want a smooth transition, but they want all employees to

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Speaker 2: fly for roles with monos and they want to keep

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Speaker 2: their local workforce out there.

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Speaker 1: Well, that is good to hear. So you've already met

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Speaker 1: with them today Storbes, Is that right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's correct. We've met with Monodelpus yesterday briefly. We've

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Speaker 2: met with impects this morning just to get there. They're

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Speaker 2: gift on the whole lot because they couldn't give us

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Speaker 2: too much information previously given the stockings change effect, you know,

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Speaker 2: with all that sort of insight information. So it's been

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Speaker 2: very forthcoming in our conversations. There's a few sort of

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Speaker 2: unique issues around you leave arrangements and different bits and

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Speaker 2: pieces that we want to work through and have those

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Speaker 2: sort of things on it. So but discussions so far

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Speaker 2: have been pretty good and we look forward to continueing

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Speaker 2: those discussions over the next few weeks.

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Speaker 1: Well, that is good to hear, because the last thing

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Speaker 1: anybody wants to see is, you know, is people losing

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Speaker 1: their jobs. So it is good to hear that it

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Speaker 1: sounds like it's pretty positive and that it's going to

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Speaker 1: be a smooth transition. I mean, you know, even when

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Speaker 1: you look at what's happening in Mount Isa at the moment,

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Speaker 1: with the mind there set to close down in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five. I know it's a while away, but it

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Speaker 1: does just go to show you how some of these

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Speaker 1: major projects that we've got in our communities, when there's

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Speaker 1: changes to the workforce and when there's changes to their operations,

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Speaker 1: it can have such a huge impact to the whole community.

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Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, Katie. And we've been assured the small wanting

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Speaker 2: that the hours in the maintenance scopes are the same,

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Speaker 2: so the work still has to be done out there.

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Speaker 2: It is just and the execution of the works by

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Speaker 2: our trades people out there, there's no question that they

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Speaker 2: do a good job.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: It's just a business decision up high to try and

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Speaker 2: gain some efficiencies. But as I say, there's a few

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Speaker 2: things that we need to work through, especially with the

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Speaker 2: roster changes, to ensure a good outcome for everyone going forward.

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Speaker 1: Well, Dave Hayes, we always appreciate your time. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for having a chat with us this morning

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Speaker 1: on very short notice. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: No thanks, Cardie, thank you