The 80 workers currently on strike at General Mills factory, in the western Sydney suburb of Rooty Hill, are facing a dual offensive. The company is seeking to impose sub-inflation wage increases and cuts to overtime payments, and the United Workers Union (UWU) is doing everything in its power to isolate the stoppage and prepare the grounds for a sell-out.
From the opening minutes of the industrial action last Friday, UWU officials have sought to prevent workers from speaking to Socialist Equality Party (SEP) members, demonstrating their role as an industrial police force, intensely hostile to an international socialist perspective. The attacks on the SEP are the sharpest expression of a broader effort by the union to ensure that produc…
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