00:01For 14 months, 500 workers at the Tarmore Colliery southwest of Sydney have faced an
00:06uncertain future. The mine owned by British industrialist Sanjeev Gupta stopped operating
00:12in February last year because of constraints around cash for vital supplies. A winding
00:18up application by creditors was brought to the Supreme Court in August and after a much
00:23delayed court process, the court ordered it into liquidation last week. In November,
00:30already 250 contractors had been stood down but on Wednesday night, the remainder of the
00:35permanent workforce received news of their redundancy. Today, their union has brought
00:41them together. It's been my livelihood for 40 odd years. Sad to see it leave. I have to
00:48go back today and pack my desk up, pack my toolbox up, pack my locker up and drive away
00:53and I'm not happy about that. I understand the liquidate has got a job to do but they're
00:58also playing with humans, human life, families, people's livelihoods. Say goodbye to blokes
01:06and walk out of the place and drive over the hill. It was hard. You must have felt gutted.
01:12Yeah, I was. So yeah, it's been hard. The union has been highly critical of what it's called
01:18the financial mismanagement of the mine, but the workers face another tough choice. They
01:23have till this evening to decide if they take six weeks without pay to assess whether or
01:27not the mine sale will go ahead or accept redundancies.
01:30Doubtstand I
01:31Wee
01:31Wee
01:31So
01:31Mmm
01:33Ooh
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