The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union has called for increased government support for the sector which is contracting at its worst rate since the global financial crisis | nickbonyhady
The majority of manufacturers have kept running through the pandemic and some in the medical area have flourished, but the sector overall is contracting at its worst rate since the global financial crisis.AMWU secretary Paul Bastian said the government needed to act in the next 10 weeks.
"Unless we start seeing something done, our concern is we're going to see employment further decline, you're going to see the manufacturing base erode further, and that doesn't augur well for rebuilding," Mr Bastian said. "When manufacturing goes, it goes."National packaging company Pro-Pac announced this week it would close its plant at Chester Hill in western Sydney, which employs about 70 people, to save about $7 million annually.
"There will be quite a few [redundancies]," Mr Welsh said. "We do have other sites and facilities in NSW and interstate so the process we're going through at the moment is first to understand what roles can be redeployed.
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