Unions have hit Chevron’s Barrow Island LNG facility with “same job, same pay claims” that could lift the wages of contracted maintenance crews by an extraordinary $80,000 a year.

The Electrical Trades Union Western Australia last week lodged applications against Ventia and BR & I on behalf of some 30 maintenance workers at the Gorgon LNG plant and its processing facilities, who it says are paid significantly less than the direct workforce under a union agreement.