IFCBA Director Paul Damkjaer says small and medium business’ last chance to make sense of 2020 has evaporated amid the Port Botany protests seeing as these businesses are now facing cancelled orders and massive financial loss.
IFCBA Director Paul Damkjaer says small and medium business’ last chance to make sense of 2020 has evaporated amid the Port Botany protests given businesses are now facing cancelled orders and massive financial loss. Tens of thousands of shipping containers holding critical supplies await unloading off the New South Wales coast as wharf workers at Patrick’s Terminal call for a six per cent annual pay rise each year over the next four years.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has labelled the protest as “straight out extortion”, urging the union movement to distance itself from the behaviour perpetrated by the go-slow campaigners. “I’ve had whole host of heartfelt letters from small to medium size enterprises, and this was their last chance to make any sort of sense out of 2020,” Mr Damkjaer told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “Now it’s sort of evaporating with the possibility of cancelled orders.
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