Australia: PepsiCo demands more real pay cuts at Brisbane Smith’s crisps factory

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    "title": "Australia: PepsiCo demands more real pay cuts at Brisbane Smith’s crisps factory - World Socialist Web Site",
    "excerpt": "As part of a global cost-cutting offensive, food and beverage giant PepsiCo is seeking to impose further cuts to real wages and working conditions at its Smith’s Snackfood factory in the Brisbane suburb of Tingalpa. Aggressively, the management has announced a ballot to try to push through its demands without agreement from the three trade unions covering the more than 400 workers at the site, while counting on the union officials to stifle workers’ anger. Workers should vote No as a first step to fighting for better conditions and winning support from other PepsiCo workers nationally and internationally. The management’s move follows talks with the Australian Workers Union (AWU) and United Workers Union (UWU), which have production and warehouse members, and the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), which has members among maintenance workers. Together with a factory at Regency Park in Adelaide, the Brisbane plant produces potato chips and other snacks, under brands including Smith’s, Doritos, Red Rock Deli, Twisties and Burger Rings. As well as workers’ pay demands, the company has rejected virtually all the limited claims submitted by the unions, such as higher duties payments, limits on CCTV surveillance, a 30 percent night time shift allowance and allowances for workers’ licences and tickets. The only concession is a first aid allowance of just $22.26 per week. For now, aware of...",
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