workers right

ABOUT 140 meatworkers have been locked out of a meat processing plant in Brooklyn in Melbourne's west after picketing their workplace since Friday 10th December. The workers are trying to win a decent pay rise. Their employer Swift Australia, Australia's biggest meat packer and exporter, is only offering them a 2 percent pay rise, for which they are meant to worked for reduced penalty rates on a Saturday. vowed to picket until Christmas if necessary after being locked out of a Brooklyn plant.