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FOA laws provide reprieve for meatworker

An abbatoir worker and meatworkers' union delegate who was sacked after a torrid nine-month lockout at the G&K O'Connor meatworks at Pakenham, Victoria, has temporarily won his job back, after the Federal Court found he might have been unlawfully dismissed for being a union delegate.

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