HEINZ Baby Foods workers last night were locked out of a factory at Echuca for refusing to attend teamwork meetings.
In what’s been labelled as a "dummy spit", the baby food company locked some 70 employees out over a dispute about changing shift times, The Australian reported.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's Tom Hale said the company wanted to change the current shift pattern in the new enterprise bargaining agreement.
"This shift pattern is a way of life for these workers, their family life and recreation is built around it and has been for nine years," he said today.
"It's a lot to ask them to suddenly change their entire lives and not have any flexibility about it."
Mr Hale said the union would be talking to the company and workers to try and resolve the issue.
For more, see The Australian.
