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February 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Pacific Brands’ decision to lay off 106 employees in Sydney is “callous” and “disloyal”, The National Workers of Union says.
Eighty-eight forklift drivers and packers were told they would lose their jobs at the Bonds distribution centre in Minto in southwestern Sydney on Thursday afternoon.
Another 18 jobs will also be shed at the Berlei distribution centre in Wentworthville in western Sydney that deals with bras and briefs.
The company said it was shifting operations to a new distribution centre in Truganina in Melbourne, where 76 fulltime jobs have already been created.
“It’s close to rail. It’s close to the air and it’s close to the sea,” a spokesman for the company told AAP on Thursday.
“It will allow us to operate a lot more efficiently.
“We are creating, hopefully, a similar number of jobs in Melbourne.”
But the National Union of Workers (NUW) NSW attacked the company, saying it had turned its back on loyal workers.
“Workers were told at 2pm (AEDT) in the afternoon. It was a shock to all of them. They had no warning of this decision,” the NUW NSW spokesperson, Mark Ptolemy, said in a statement.
“To add insult to injury, the workers were told that they could apply for the positions in Victoria, as if that was some kind of consolation to having their jobs pulled out from under them.
“The decision was callous and disloyal to Pacific Brands workers,” he said.
The union called on NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell to intervene and stop the job haemorrhage.
The government said it had contacted the company on Thursday afternoon in an attempt to stop the shedding of jobs, but nothing could be done.
“I’ve spoken with the Pacific Brands CEO this afternoon to see if there was anything the NSW government could do to change their mind,” Deputy Premier and Minister for Trade and Investment Andrew Stoner said in a statement on Thursday.
“Unfortunately, there wasn’t.”
The NSW government said workers would be offered support, including assistance and retraining.
“My heart goes out to the workers affected by this decision today, as well as the handful of NSW employees impacted by Qantas’s announcement,” Mr Stoner said, referring to recently announced job cuts at the carrier.
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