BOM To go on strike for 3 weeks.

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BOM To go on strike for 3 weeks.

Postby Overlandman » Wed 19 Jul, 2017 9:50 pm

From ABC

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-19/b ... ks/8725062

Staff at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) are going on strike for three weeks, after being locked in an ongoing dispute over pay and conditions for three years.
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Re: BOM To go on strike for 3 weeks.

Postby stansi » Thu 20 Jul, 2017 1:11 am

Thank God, for the amature forecasters @ski.com.au
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Re: BOM To go on strike for 3 weeks.

Postby north-north-west » Thu 20 Jul, 2017 8:21 am

It's not going to affect normal forecasts. Impact will be almost exclusively internal. So relax.
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Re: BOM To go on strike for 3 weeks.

Postby Mark F » Thu 20 Jul, 2017 10:37 am

What! With nobody regulating the weather we may be in for a wild time - snow, rain, hail and cyclones :lol:
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Postby GPSGuided » Thu 20 Jul, 2017 4:40 pm

KaBOM!
Just move it!
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