Supermarket shelves left empty as Woolworths workers picket factory

Australian Community Media

Around 200 member of the United Workers Union have joined a picket line outside a warehouse in Dandenong, Victoria, as industrial dispute enters 12th day.

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00:00We are here 24-7.

00:17This site has been closed since Thursday the 21st of November.

00:22It remains closed now.

00:24There has been no buses come, there's been nobody to try and go to work and as it stands

00:29the site is shut.

00:30Woolworths can fix this issue.

00:32Woolworths can have those products back on their shelf.

00:35They can have that today.

00:37But also really importantly, as with the shoppers, our members deserve to be safe at work.

00:43They deserve to work in a workplace that provides their safety first and foremost.

00:48And they need to be able to go home in the same shape that they arrived to their family

00:51at the end of the day.

00:59For more UN videos visit www.un.org

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