The AMWU and AWU have put aside traditional hostilities to form a manufacturing alliance to push for measures - including local sourcing on infrastructure projects and assistance for employers to train workers facing retrenchment - to protect the sector from further job losses. The two unions will vote together on manufacturing resolutions at next week's ALP national conference.
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