http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/taxonomy/term/1745/all en http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/2010/12/14/meat-workers-in-brooklyn-melbourne-locked-out <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> 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.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Geography:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/geography/australia/victoria/melbourne">Melbourne</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Keywords:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/workers-right">workers right</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/swift-australia">Swift Australia</a></div></div></div> Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:24:52 +0000 Anonymous 2271 at http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal