Visy dispute continues with ongoing strikes in Shepparton

By Murray Silby

Mar 16, 2023

**Determined:** Australian Manufacturing Workers Union representative Danny Miller says Visy workers are determined to get a better offer out of the company. Photo by Holly Daniel

Workers from Visy’s Shepparton plant in Wheeler St are continuing their industrial action two months after beginning rolling stoppages.

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The workers first walked off the job in January and eight weeks later say they are no closer to finding a suitable outcome.

Visy workers will again walk off the job on Friday, March 17 completing a full week of industrial action.

They are unhappy with the company’s 8.75 per cent pay increase offered over three years, saying with the current high levels of inflation, it amounts to a pay cut.

“Literally, every week there’s been rolling stoppages of three or four days,” Australian Manufacturing Workers Union representative Danny Miller said.

“This week it was four days and previous weeks it was three days.

“We’ve had a number of talks in between there, but no progress has been made in delivering a decent pay result for the Visy workers in Shepparton.”

Mr Miller said the industrial action was having an impact on Visy’s production from the Wheeler St plant.

“The warehouse is experiencing a significant reduction,” he said.

“The company has gone to no ends and no expense spared to get around the industrial action, including getting stock or cans from other locations.

“The amount of expense the company is going to, it would have been far more effective and might have actually reached a settlement if they’d made a decent offer.”