FED:Visy strike no threat to Xmas beer, Foster's

AAP General News (Australia)
12-01-2010
FED:Visy strike no threat to Xmas beer, Foster's

Foster's says there's no threat to Christmas beer supplies because of a planned strike
by workers at Visy plants .. which provide packaging for the amber fluid.

About 400 workers at Visy sites in Victoria and NSW have voted to strike indefinitely
from Friday over an enterprise bargaining dispute.

The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union says the strike has the potential to disrupt
beer supplies for Christmas.

However .. Foster's spokeswoman LIZ MCLACHLAN says less than five per cent of its product
relies on packaging from the plants where the strikes have been called.

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KEYWORD: BEER (MELBOURNE)

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