Not So Sunny
p. 127 · Read in the full issue
Bougainville
• The “Come to Sunny Bougainville” brochure has gone sour for about 100 Bougainville copper project employees (see Ann Glenn reports, p. 48). They found the sunshine but in June they went on strike over the pay and working conditions, demand ing a 20 per cent, basic pay in crease, 15c an hour quarry allowance, overseas allowance on overtime shifts, 100 per cent, loading on all overtime, shift allowance pay on all rotating shifts and five weeks paid leave.
According to a strikers’ spokes man, the impression of Utopian conditions indicated in the brochure has rapidly dis integrated.
Mr. F. Espie, OBE (left), managing director of Bougainville Copper Pty. Ltd., and the man who has directed the vast build-up of the project, has been appointed com pany chairman, succeeding Sir Maurice Mawby. Mr. R. W. Ballmer (right) suc ceeds Mr. Espie as managing director and will live at Panguna.