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The AMWU's bid after 17 years to carve out a separate deal for maintenance workers at a Queensland coal mine has been knocked back by the FWC, which has rejected its characterisation of members as "tadpoles" in a pond containing "a shark and a killer whale" in the form of owner Thiess and the CFMMEU.
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