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Workers at the Brotherhood of St Laurence in Melbourne have voted up a new enterprise agreement, ending 16 months of bargaining that saw strikes for the first time in the 93-year-old anti-poverty charity’s history.

There was a determined and celebratory mood last Friday morning among hundreds of workers picketing the Ingham’s Burton poultry plant on Kaurna land in northern Adelaide.

Instead of talk about duck hunting, the unions should be doing something about the 50 and 60-hour weeks that are the rule on construction sites.