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Re: Melbourne Factory Closes - 180 Jobs Lost.
Reply #15 - Apr 2^nd, 2014 at 3:54pm

polite_gandalf wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2014 at 2:41pm:

Grendel wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2014 at 11:38am:

The new packaging and years of negative publicity has had an impact on the industry

boo smacking hoo

Not a smoker myself gandalf... not very tolerant or compassionate to the addicted are you
not a very Moslem trait eh. Roll Eyes

or is it?

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Re: Melbourne Factory Closes - 180 Jobs Lost.
Reply #16 - Apr 2^nd, 2014 at 4:06pm

Grendel wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2014 at 2:26pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2014 at 11:58am:

It may well not be strictly Abbotts fault, but it does go against the whole open for business thing.

Ah the progressive left never finding it easy to let go and face reality.

I agree. Australia is open for business, leftards. Mr Abbott will be a jobs PM. Ditch the witch, axe the tax, end the Labor waste, fix the budget emergency.

That's Mr Abbott for you - what a tall glass of water.

Thank heavens the grown-ups are back in charge.

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Re: Melbourne Factory Closes - 180 Jobs Lost.
Reply #17 - Apr 2^nd, 2014 at 11:47pm

King FriYAY II wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2014 at 11:32am:

I think all these closures are all Abbott's fault.

All these problems have only come up in the last 6 months.

THAT'S a bit harsh !
Take a look at Victoria's employment history in relation to the sorry election of the
Baillieu Government

buzzanddidj wrote on Feb 19^th, 2012 at 9:54am:

Baillieu Government leading the nation - on unemployment growth

February 17, 2012

VICTORIA is taking the brunt of Australia's job losses. Official figures show a net 33,000 full-time jobs have been lost since April, equivalent to one in every 60 full-time positions in the state
.

Yesterday's bleak jobs data came as Qantas foreshadowed hundreds of job cuts and the possible closure of one of its two heavy maintenance depots at Avalon and Tullamarine, which together employ more than 1000 people.

Nationally, the jobs figures have gone back to a zig-zag pattern. On a seasonally adjusted estimate, the Bureau of Statistics says Australia gained 46,000 jobs in January, after losing 41,000 in the previous two months.

Seasonally adjusted, unemployment edged down to 5.1 per cent, but the bureau's figures show the big movement has been of people leaving the workforce altogether. In the past year, while unemployment has risen only marginally, the workforce participation rate has fallen by the equivalent of over 100,000 workers.

Roughly half of those lost workers were in Victoria, where the seasonally adjusted figures reported another 15,000 full-time jobs lost in January.

The bureau figures show a tale of two economies. In the past year Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory have added 44,000 full-time jobs, while the south-eastern states have lost 38,000 full-time jobs.

http://www.theage.com.au/business/victoria-bears-brunt-of-job-cuts-20120216-1tby...

Remember the "good old days" ?

Quote:

Victoria leads states in jobs growth

Tim Colebatch
November 12, 2010

VICTORIA has added more jobs over the past four years than any other state, with 278,000 more people in work than at the time of the last state election.

Jobs figures released yesterday by the Bureau of Statistics show that Australia's buoyant jobs growth continued in October, with employers adding almost 30,000 jobs in seasonally adjusted terms.

On the more reliable trend figures used to analyse state data,

Victoria has added 95,000 jobs in the past year, with jobs growing 3.5 per cent in the state, compared with 3.2 per cent growth in the nation.

Over the past four years, the bureau reports that

Victoria has enjoyed the biggest jobs growth in the nation in absolute terms

, and the third fastest growth behind the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

''Victoria is Australia's jobs engine room,'' Treasurer John Lenders declared.

''Not only have we achieved the 150,000 jobs target promised at the last election, we have created 138,000 more jobs than promised and more than any other state.''

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/victoria-leads-states-in-jobs-growth-20101111-...

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Re: Melbourne Factory Closes - 180 Jobs Lost.
Reply #18 - Apr 3^rd, 2014 at 2:51pm

Future stubbed out at Philip Morris before dawn shift

RACHEL BAXENDALE
The Australian
April 03, 2014

“SHOCK” was the word on the lips of workers and union officials outside Philip Morris’s Melbourne cigarette factory yesterday. Sad

About 180 employees were given the news they will be made redundant in November, soon after they arrived at Moorabbin, 15km southeast of the CBD, to begin their 6am shift.

Australian Workers Union organiser Jimmy Mastrandonakis said 78 shop floor workers would be among them. “They’ve worked here 20 or 30 years. It’s the only thing they know,” he said. “It’s going to be hard.

“There’s newer people taking out mortgages and things like that. They’re … going to struggle.” Sad

He said the workforce was tight-knit, with husbands and wives working alongside one another and children following their parents onto the shop floor.

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imcrookonit

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Re: Melbourne Factory Closes - 180 Jobs Lost.
Reply #19 - Apr 3^rd, 2014 at 2:52pm

Future stubbed out at Philip Morris before dawn shift

RACHEL BAXENDALE
The Australian
April 03, 2014

“SHOCK” was the word on the lips of workers and union officials outside Philip Morris’s Melbourne cigarette factory yesterday. Sad

About 180 employees were given the news they will be made redundant in November, soon after they arrived at Moorabbin, 15km southeast of the CBD, to begin their 6am shift.

Australian Workers Union organiser Jimmy Mastrandonakis said 78 shop floor workers would be among them. “They’ve worked here 20 or 30 years. It’s the only thing they know,” he said. “It’s going to be hard.

“There’s newer people taking out mortgages and things like that. They’re … going to struggle.” Sad

He said the workforce was tight-knit, with husbands and wives working alongside one another and children following their parents onto the shop floor.

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imcrookonit

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Re: Melbourne Factory Closes - 180 Jobs Lost.
Reply #20 - Apr 3^rd, 2014 at 2:52pm

Future stubbed out at Philip Morris before dawn shift

RACHEL BAXENDALE
The Australian
April 03, 2014

“SHOCK” was the word on the lips of workers and union officials outside Philip Morris’s Melbourne cigarette factory yesterday. Sad

About 180 employees were given the news they will be made redundant in November, soon after they arrived at Moorabbin, 15km southeast of the CBD, to begin their 6am shift.

Australian Workers Union organiser Jimmy Mastrandonakis said 78 shop floor workers would be among them. “They’ve worked here 20 or 30 years. It’s the only thing they know,” he said. “It’s going to be hard.

“There’s newer people taking out mortgages and things like that. They’re … going to struggle.” Sad

He said the workforce was tight-knit, with husbands and wives working alongside one another and children following their parents onto the shop floor.

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Re: Melbourne Factory Closes - 180 Jobs Lost.
Reply #22 - Apr 3^rd, 2014 at 3:00pm

Grendel wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2014 at 11:38am:

My brother in law works in the tobacco industry... this has been coming and happening for years.

The schizo approach to the industry by governments has had an impact.

They hate them but love their money.

The new packaging and years of negative publicity has had an impact on the industry, which also involved printing and packaging... we print and send cigarette packaging to countries overseas, they have been developing their own facilities.

This is yet again not the fault of the Abbott abbott Abbott government.

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