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Supermarket seeks Fair Work orders to clear Melbourne picket line
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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12/3/2024
The Fair Work Commission is being asked to intervene in strike action affecting supermarket giant Woolworths.
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Woolworths distribution workers, including people behind me, have now been striking for
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almost two weeks.
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The strikes have been impacting distribution centres, including this one in Melbourne's
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South East.
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It's meant that things like nappies, toilet paper, frozen goods haven't been able to get
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into some of the supermarket giant's stores.
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The supermarket has just told the ASX that this has meant it's lost out on $50 million
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in sales as it's entering the busy Christmas period.
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Now these strikes have also meant that workers have been forgoing pay for now almost two
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weeks, losing out on around $1,000 a week after tax.
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The union has said this afternoon that it has been handing the cap around to help out
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with some of the workers' rent or if they need food.
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The union has also said that it maintains that these workers deserve better pay and
00:57
better conditions inside the Woolworths distribution centres.
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I would say 100% of workers out on strike want to return to work, but they want to return
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to work when they have an agreement on fair and just terms.
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The workers in making this decision to go out on strike, they don't make it easily.
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There's over 1,500 workers, 1,500 families who also need to put food on the table.
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They shop in Woolworths as well.
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They all want to get back to work.
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We want the company to sit down and fix this.
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Workers can fix this today with their workers and we can have all these sheds operating
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again.
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The situation has now become so onerous for Woolworths that it has lodged an application
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with the Fair Work Commission to try and get some workers back into these centres.
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The supermarket giant claims that these picket lines behind me have made it intimidating
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for workers who want to come to work.
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The union says that's not correct and they wouldn't stand in the way of any workers if
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they did want to get into these centres.
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It says that around 85% of the workers inside this centre, for instance, are with the union
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and democratically they've decided that they won't go to work and they're prepared to keep
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striking.
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