Amcor Flexibles
29 Bell St
Preston
(between Chifley Drive and Albert St)
Community assembly roster: Paullie 0402 273 677
contacts Dave Kerin 0412 484 094 | Joe Montero 0402 679 201, 9486 6306

Workers at Amcor Flexibles in Preston are standing firm in the face of company harassment and intimidation. Management has contacted individual workers at home threatening them with fines if they failed to return to work immediately. Amcor workers have been requested by management to participate in a monitored phone poll on the question of returning to work. AMWU members have been on strike since August 1 in defense of fellow workers targeted for forced redundancy.

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Recent Amcor letters contain a number of assertions, three of the most outrageous are.
1. That the majority of workers wish to return to work
2. That a supporters organized through Union Solidarity are preventing workers a return to work
3. That Union Solidarity is using the dispute for it’s own political purpose.

It is clear however that action at Amcor is continuing because the workers at Amcor wish it to continue. Also the only organization preventing a return to work is actually Amcor management. They have insisted on forced redundancy and are seeking legal sanctions against the union and it’s members that prevent a just settlement to the dispute. In other words the company is using Howard’s IR laws to try and bludgeon the workers back in the gate without their mates.

Amcor obtained an interim order from the commission (August 4) instructing that all industrial action should cease. An application by Amcor for a substantive order will be heard 4pm August 8. The matter in all probability will be referred to the federal court.

Union Solidarity's position on the Amcor dispute is the same as any other issue; to show no strings attached solidarity to unions and communities taking action in defense of their rights. We will stand by the Amcor workers until the dispute is over.

Amcor are using the same desperate tactics employers often use in this situation. Their attacks are indicative of what companies like Amcor and Howard think of ordinary Australians and their views on IR laws. When fellow workers attend a picket out of concern they are slandered and vilified.

The stand the union members at Amcor are taking deserves your full support. They have refused to be bullied by Howard’s IR laws. Amcor workers can and must win with wider support from the union movement and the community.

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