UNPAID Pacific Highway upgrade sub-contractors claim the Roads Minister was “passing the buck” over outstanding wages to workers after a primary contractor entered voluntary administration.
Many of the 200 workers at the Tyndale to Glenugie section of the Woolgoolga to Ballina upgrade were left in the lurch after Ostwald Pty Ltd abandoned the project more than two months ago.
Minister Melinda Pavey was fronted with a question about the on-going pay dispute and the security of works on future projects at an infrastructure forum held in Lismore last week.
One subbie, who doesn’t want to be named, said Melinda Pavey’s comments about subbies ensuring “due-diligence” before they agreed to projects was “bulls**t”.
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