After being on strike for over 9 weeks, 54 workers employed at the Bitzer refrigerator manufacturing plant in Melbourne, Australia, won their fight against the company. The management of Bitzer wanted to enforce a new agreement on workers that would increase their work days and decrease their job security with a very small pay increase. The workers stood united against the company, and faced with increasing support from unions and the community as the dispute continued, the company gave up trying to undermine workers’ conditions and wages.
After being on strike for over 9 weeks, 54 workers employed at the Bitzer refrigerator manufacturing plant in Melbourne, Australia, won their fight against the company. The management of Bitzer wanted to enforce a new agreement on workers that would increase their work days and decrease their job security with a very small pay increase. The workers stood united against the company, and faced with increasing support from unions and the community as the dispute continued, the company gave up trying to undermine workers’ conditions and wages.
