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More jobs to go as food company closes down
Aug 10^th, 2012 at 11:19am

More manufacturing jobs going offshore !! When will it end ?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-09/more-jobs-to-go-as-food-company-closes-dow...

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A food manufacturer is closing its factory at Altona, with the loss of more than 100 jobs.

Kerry Ingredients is laying off 85 workers from the factory floor.

Another 20 administrative staff will also be laid off.

That means the Altona plant will close next March.

The company says it is shifting production to other factories interstate and in the Asia-Pacific as a result of a manufacturing review.

The National Union of Workers' (NUW) spokesman Tim Kennedy says it is a disaster for staff.

"These are high quality jobs, high-skilled jobs, high-paid jobs, and we're very concerned about the crisis that seems to be taking over manufacturing in this state," he said.

The union's organiser, Julie Morgan believes it is driven partly by cheap labour overseas.

"I feel that part of it with product going overseas for manufacture must be to do with wages," she said.

"These people are on reasonably good wages but nothing outstanding, wages that you'd expect to find in Australia, but they look at going to countries like Malaysia and China to get the product made."

Kerry Ingredients says the workers will be redeployed or offered redundancy packages.

The announcement coincides with the latest job figures.

Nationally, unemployment dropped from 5.3 to 5.2 per cent.

In Victoria the number of people in full time work fell by 11,600.

The July figures shows Victoria's unemployment rate eased to 5.4 per cent.

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imcrookonit Ex Member	Re: More jobs to go as food company closes down Reply #1 - Aug 10^th, 2012 at 11:29am Yes nail, where will it end?. Now we have the liberal premiers, planing on sacking thousands of public servants. All well and good I hear the liberals say, in order to cut debt. Except where are these people supposed to go?. No one really thinks of that, do they?.
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Sir lastnail Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 30100 Gender:	Re: More jobs to go as food company closes down Reply #2 - Aug 10^th, 2012 at 12:13pm According to the pollies we have a surprisingly strong jobs growth (in china) LOL
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Re: More jobs to go as food company closes down
Reply #3 - Aug 10^th, 2012 at 12:26pm

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Yes nail, where will it end?. Now we have the liberal premiers, planing on sacking thousands of public servants. All well and good I hear the liberals say, in order to cut debt. Except where are these people supposed to go?. No one really thinks of that, do they?. Sad

I daresay it crosses their minds at odd times, but they brush it aside because they don't really care.

As soon as the general public wake up to the fact that the politicians are not there to give them any comforts, the better.

In other words, they don't care!

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Reply #4 - Aug 10^th, 2012 at 12:29pm

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 12:26pm:

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Yes nail, where will it end?. Now we have the liberal premiers, planing on sacking thousands of public servants. All well and good I hear the liberals say, in order to cut debt. Except where are these people supposed to go?. No one really thinks of that, do they?. Sad

I daresay it crosses their minds at odd times, but they brush it aside because they don't really care.

As soon as the general public wake up to the fact that the politicians are not there to give them any comforts, the better.

In other words, they don't care!

So kinda like you and Asia's human rights violations?

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Reply #5 - Aug 10^th, 2012 at 12:38pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 12:29pm:

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 12:26pm:

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Yes nail, where will it end?. Now we have the liberal premiers, planing on sacking thousands of public servants. All well and good I hear the liberals say, in order to cut debt. Except where are these people supposed to go?. No one really thinks of that, do they?. Sad

I daresay it crosses their minds at odd times, but they brush it aside because they don't really care.

As soon as the general public wake up to the fact that the politicians are not there to give them any comforts, the better.

In other words, they don't care!

So kinda like you and Asia's human rights violations?

Weren't you boasting about closing up factories here and shipping them off over to china where they have those human rights abuse ?

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Reply #6 - Aug 10^th, 2012 at 12:42pm

Sir lastnail wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 12:38pm:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 12:29pm:

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 12:26pm:

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Yes nail, where will it end?. Now we have the liberal premiers, planing on sacking thousands of public servants. All well and good I hear the liberals say, in order to cut debt. Except where are these people supposed to go?. No one really thinks of that, do they?. Sad

I daresay it crosses their minds at odd times, but they brush it aside because they don't really care.

As soon as the general public wake up to the fact that the politicians are not there to give them any comforts, the better.

In other words, they don't care!

So kinda like you and Asia's human rights violations?

Weren't you boasting about closing up factories here and shipping them off over to china where they have those human rights abuse ?

Nope not me mate.
We re-engineering supply chain and moved preliminary manufacture of Pharma to India under a project I did.
China was not considered - mainly because the Government basically told us how many people we had to employ and who!

India was much more suitable.

We didn't close plants - we moved divisions out that were more suited to be done elsewhere than Australia.

Hope that clears it up.

But just as a reminder - we saved over US$13m per year in OpEx.

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Prevailing Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7169 Stop Men	Re: More jobs to go as food company closes down Reply #7 - Aug 10^th, 2012 at 1:02pm Hey lets all us Aussie citizens get together with these workers and target and sue sue Julia Gillard for destroying these jobs maliciously by failing to uphold their constitutional right to economic security and free customs...
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Shane B Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1473 Canberra Gender:	Re: More jobs to go as food company closes down Reply #8 - Aug 10^th, 2012 at 1:20pm Shame Gillard.
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Reply #9 - Aug 10^th, 2012 at 1:25pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 12:42pm:

Sir lastnail wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 12:38pm:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 12:29pm:

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 12:26pm:

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Yes nail, where will it end?. Now we have the liberal premiers, planing on sacking thousands of public servants. All well and good I hear the liberals say, in order to cut debt. Except where are these people supposed to go?. No one really thinks of that, do they?. Sad

I daresay it crosses their minds at odd times, but they brush it aside because they don't really care.

As soon as the general public wake up to the fact that the politicians are not there to give them any comforts, the better.

In other words, they don't care!

So kinda like you and Asia's human rights violations?

Weren't you boasting about closing up factories here and shipping them off over to china where they have those human rights abuse ?

Nope not me mate.
We re-engineering supply chain and moved preliminary manufacture of Pharma to India under a project I did.
China was not considered - mainly because the Government basically told us how many people we had to employ and who!

India was much more suitable.

We didn't close plants - we moved divisions out that were more suited to be done elsewhere than Australia.

Hope that clears it up.

But just as a reminder - we saved over US$13m per year in OpEx.

so what about those battlers jobs you scratched away ??

which hat do you have on today Sad

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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: More jobs to go as food company closes down Reply #10 - Aug 10^th, 2012 at 1:31pm Those battlers received 2 weeks redundancy per year of service, plus their leave, plus their notice.
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Reply #11 - Aug 10^th, 2012 at 1:36pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 1:31pm:

Those battlers received 2 weeks redundancy per year of service, plus their leave, plus their notice.

but how many lost their home because they couldn't make their payments ? Did you or your boss with the flashy lexus car and house in brighton consider that ?

and what about a regular income ?? what do you expect them to do now ??

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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: More jobs to go as food company closes down Reply #12 - Aug 10^th, 2012 at 1:38pm Mate they were looked after, thats all there is to it. I am sure they are fine.
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Sir lastnail Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 30100 Gender:	Re: More jobs to go as food company closes down Reply #13 - Aug 10^th, 2012 at 1:49pm Andrei.Hicks wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 1:38pm: Mate they were looked after, thats all there is to it. I am sure they are fine. how can they be alright when you have taken away their job security ?
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Reply #14 - Aug 10^th, 2012 at 1:57pm

Sir lastnail wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 1:49pm:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 1:38pm:

Mate they were looked after, thats all there is to it.
I am sure they are fine.

how can they be alright when you have taken away their job security ?

Jobs are re-structured, companies are re-structured.
Its a fact of life.

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