Australia Unions Push On With Strike At BHP's Port Hedland

SYDNEY, Aug 8 (Reuters) – Workers will continue a two-day strike at BHP’s Port Hedland operations in Western Australia as planned, a union official said on Saturday, after the start of the first major industrial action at the iron-ore export hub in more than two decades.

About 150 workers are expected to take part in the strike, which comprises a 24-hour ship-loading ban followed by a 24-hour stoppage on Sunday at the port, the world’s biggest export hub for iron ore.

Steve McCartney, Western Australian secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union, said its members – “the people that load the ships” – were taking