PACIFIC Highway subcontractors are preparing to ramp up their fight for months of unpaid wages from one of the project’s primary contractors, which went into voluntary administration earlier this year.
About 200 highway workers who completed the Glenugie to Tyndale section of the Pacific Highway upgrade have been left without months of pay after Darling-Downs based company Ostwald Bros abandoned the site and announced it was in administration.
About 15 impacted subcontractors and members of advocacy group, Subcontractors Alliance, met via teleconference on Sunday to discuss the upcoming meeting of creditors with administrators Price Waterhouse Coopers in Toowoomba.
Subcontractor Jo Franklin, who is based on the Northe…
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