{"id":29268,"date":"2021-06-12T06:28:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T20:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/?p=21740"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:01:35","slug":"tony-burke-visits-striking-general-mills-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/archive\/tony-burke-visits-striking-general-mills-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"TONY BURKE VISITS STRIKING GENERAL MILLS WORKERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>MEDIA ALERT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>WHEN:<\/strong>\u00a011 am TODAY Saturday 12 June 2021<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>WHERE:<\/strong> 16 Kellogg Road, Rooty Hill NSW 2766<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>WHAT:\u00a0<\/strong>General Mills workers on strike.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>WHO:<\/strong>\u00a0Shadow Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke to visit between 11 am and 12:30 pm, United Workers Union spokesperson Tom Sayers and striking workers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>VISUALS:\u00a0<\/strong>Workers on strike with placards and families enjoying a barbecue with the General Mills Factory in the background.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On the ninth day of their indefinite strike, gutsy General Mills food production workers will hold a family barbecue at the gates of the General Mills factory in Rooty Hill.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Special guest, Shadow Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke, will join the workers who have been on strike for nine days in an effort to secure fair wages and conditions.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">General Mills, which produces popular food brands such as Old El Paso and Latina Fresh, is an American based multinational corporation which recorded a revenue of US $17.6 billion last year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile the company is hoping to further entrench job insecurity, remove workers\u2019 rights and increase obligations for weekend work while refusing a decent pay rise for workers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>NOTE: Everyone attending this event will be expected to adhere to the COVID Safe Plan in place at the site.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">ENDS<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Media Contact: 1300 898 633, media@unitedworkers.org.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA ALERT WHEN:\u00a011 am TODAY Saturday 12 June 2021 WHERE: 16 Kellogg Road, Rooty Hill NSW 2766 WHAT:\u00a0General Mills workers on strike. WHO:\u00a0Shadow Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke to visit between 11 am&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65307,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29268\/revisions\/65307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}